>SPIRAL
Keyword clue: FOOD THICKENER
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 Acid-tasting
2 Affluent
3 Church song
4 Immediately following
5 Tie-on labels
6 Sound of despair
7 Dangle
8 Seed
9 Post
10 Norse god of mischief
11 Press (clothes)
12 Imminent
13 Coral ridge
14 Shark features
15 Champagne glass part
16 . . . fide (in bad faith)
>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.
HARD
>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: VHTVH is SENSE
>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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