Word spiral

1. Cooking fat

2. Slimming plan

3. Roughneck

4. Microbe

5. Eight furlongs

6. Long, thing fishes

7. Cummerbund

8. Bee structure

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

9. Epochs

10. Indication

11. Christmas

12. Prop against

13. Common sense

14. Hotpot

15. Weak and cowardly person

16. Knitting stitch