>SPIRAL
Keyword clue: GERMAN CITY
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 Winter food
2 Dance of the Sugar . . . Fairy (The Nutcracker)
3 Ground nutmeg shell
4 At any time
5 Jewellery item
6 Ancient region of Europe
7 Secular
8 Face part
9 Pleasant or a city
10 Old Testament garden
11 Midday
12 Sushi wrapping
13 Metal and anagram of No 12
14 La . . . (weather phenomenon)
15 Grows old
16 Without help
>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
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: LQYLAE is ALWAYS
>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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