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    PUZZLES

    Dec 08, 2023 7 minutes

    >SPIRAL

    Keyword clue: A MESS

    Starting with clue No 1, fill in the grid in a clockwise direction with four-letter words working your way to the centre of the spiral puzzle. The last letter of each word becomes the first letter of the next. If you have correctly filled in the grid there should be a seven-letter keyword reading across from clue No 8.

    1Happy and contented
    2Barbie, eg
    3Animal’s den
    4Lines
    5Serb or Croat, eg
    6Calf meat
    7Secular
    8Obstruct a drain
    9Equipment
    10 Paella need
    11 Turtle family (inf)
    12 Qatar’s capital
    13 Adroit
    14 I’m all . . . (listening eagerly)
    15 Ticket end
    16 Dry (champagne)

    >SUDOKU

    These number puzzles are quite simple. Place the numbers 1 to 9 in the empty squares so that the same number appears only once in each row, each column and each 3x3 box.

    EASY

    >CRYPTO QUOTE

    Example: AXYDLBAAXR is: LONGFELLOW

    One letter stands for another. In the example above, A is used for the three Ls, X for the two Os and so on. Single letters, apostrophes, the length and formation of the words are all hints. Each week the code letters are different.

    This week’s hint: NVKSC is CHILD

    >VOWELLESS PUZZLE

    All the vowels have been removed from the grid, leaving the consonants.

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