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. Lion's cry

2. Jewellery item

3. Biting insect

4. Horse's gait

5. Tense

6. Implement

7. Girl

8. Counterfoil

9. Singing voice

Keyword clue: A colour

10. Footwear item

11. Border

12. Dutch cheese

13. Rodents

14. Long poem

15. Musical symbol

16. Dread