>SPIRAL
Keyword clue: TYPE OF HANDMADE WOOL RUG
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.
1 Highest point
2 Roman numeral for 35
3 Swerve sharply
4 Swamp grass
5 Sketch
6 Uterus
7 Rear
8 Brown seaweed
9 South Pacific sailing boat
10 Against (prefix)
11 Footnote notation (abbr)
12 Male parents (inf)
13 Former Iranian ruler
14 Wife of Zeus
15 In the centre of
16 Move quickly
>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: GJAEUL is REWIND
>VOWELLESS PUZZLE
All the vowels have been removed from the grid, leaving the consonants. Complete the grid by filling in the vowels, A, E ,I ,O, U. Some blocks may have more than one possible solution.
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>WORD SEARCHES
The words in the lists appear in the grids – horizontally, vertically or diagonally, backwards or forwards. Find and circle them.
The solutions to this week’s puzzles start on page 64.
NO 1
. . . LIGHT
• Arc
• Beacon
• Black
• Blue
• Brake
• Electric
• First
• Green
• Guiding
• Infrared
• Klieg
• Leading
• Morning
• Navigation
• Night
• Pilot
• Red
• Stop
• Strobe
• Tail
• Tea
• Traffic
• Ultraviolet
• Visible
• Wax
• White
• Zodiacal
NO 2
DARK . . .
• Ages• Alley• Bee• Cave• Chocolate• Cloud• Comedy• Current• Day• Energy• Eyes• Field• Glasses• Hole• Horse• Matter• Meat• Nebula• Room• Secret• Side• Sky• Slide• Star• Tale• Tone• Web• Winter
