WORD 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 key word in the shaded boxes.

1. Tablet

2. Girl

3. Shortly

4. Bird’s home

5. Lilliputian

6. To tug

7. Brown seaweed

8. Choose

9. Pavement edge

10. Kind of ballpoint

11. Burden

12. Slender

13. Gentle

14. Use a pencil

15. Creature in soil

16. Cooked animal flesh

Keyword clue: Military term.