SPIRAL

Starting from 1, fill in the grid clockwise with four-letter words. The last letter of each word becomes the first letter of the next to reveal the seven-letter key word in the shaded boxes.

1. Ridge of coral

2. Vendetta

3. Expensive

4. Skin on bacon

5. Extinct bird

6. Of the mouth

7. Heavy metal

8. Diesel oil

9. Doing word

10. Colour

11. Way out

12. Melt

13. Verruca

14. Threesome

15. Norwegian capital

16. Poems

Keyword clue: A furniture item