You South Africa – 29 August 2019

StartingwithclueNo1, fillinthegridina clockwise

directionwithfour-letterwords,workingyourwaytothe

centreofthespiralpuzzle.Thelastletterofeachwordbecomes

thefirstletterofthenext.Ifyou’vecorrectlyfilledinthegrid,there

shouldbea seven-letterkeywordreadingacrossfromclueNo8.

Fillinthewordthatcompletesthefirstwordandstartsthesecond

word.Example:After(sun)flower= Aftersunandsunflower.

123

910

14 15

16

13 12

765

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Oneletterstandsforanother.Intheexampleabove,Aisusedforthe

threeLs,XforthetwoOsandsoon.Singleletters,apostrophes,the

lengthandformationofthewordsareallhints.Eachweekthecode

lettersaredifferent.Thisweek’shint:ZRIQTisOFTEN.

Eachletterofthealphabetisrepresentedbythesame number

throughoutthepuzzle.Forexample,inthepuzzlebelow 17=C,

23=Eand8=S.Usethesecluestofillinthematchingnumbers in

therestofthegrid,thenworkoutthemissingwordsand add the

solvedletterstothenumbergridguidebelowthepuzzle.

SPIRAL CODEBREAKER

CRYPTO-

QUOTE

WORDLINK

AXYDLBAAXR

LONGFELLOW

Example:

is:

IOKIP ZRIQT VKRRQOV NZOQ MD

IPQ PQGI ZR AIV CQRQTCQOV IPGT

ROZN IPQ GOJKNQTIV ZR AIV

ZYYZVQOV.–HASSAGN YQTT

12345678910111213

14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26

12345678910111213

14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26

A B C D E F G H I J K L M A B C D E F G H I J K L M

N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z N O P Q R S T U V W X Y

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R ST UV W XY Z Z

Lastweek’ssolutionSomewhere,somethingincredibleis

waitingtobeknown.– CarlSagan

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Keyword

clue:

Coarse fabric

Head _____ suit

8 11 4

1 Utter unclearly

2 Not made up

3 Grassed area

4 Geek

5 Somewhat wet

6 Rain heavily

7 Hurry

8 Assist

9 A survey

10 Turkish currency

11 Vast period of time

12 Deprived of feeling

13 Prepare a pot of tea

14 Desire

15 Jack and Jill went there

16 Something to mourn

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