Variety: Spiral

Spirals are my favorite puzzles. I've searched for a book of on spiral puzzles without luck. Do you know of one or is one in the works?

also did lasso first, but changed to riata to make rabat airport! should have done it pencil instead of ink! had to change "its sad" to "too bad." all in all, an enjoyable, do-able puzzle.

I usually can do the spiral pretty quickly but the stumper today was the "cowpoke's rope" which runs backwards with "where planes land in Morocco's capital." LASSO (my first attempt) gave me "Raboss-al-port." That didn't seem right. LARIAT was too many letters but it did have the reverse of AIR in it, which would go with "port". So maybe a mistake in the puzzle construction? Finally, I gave in to Google and looked up the name of the airport in Rabat. Google says it's "Rabat-Sale" - so that didn't help. Finally, I just tried "Rabat Airport" and that gave me RIATA for the rope. Then I googled RIATA and the first thing that came up was an Urban Dictionary definition that gave it as Texas slang for "penis." A bit more googling revealed that it's Spanish for lariat or rope. Puzzle solved! But I still don't like the way that section worked out!

Enjoyed the Spiral and loved the use of digits.

My big news is that I FINALLY conquered Bar Codes. As with the previous math/logic puzzles, it takes a few weeks (for me, anyway) to wrap my brain around how the challenge works. What they all seem to have in common is having to toggle between what MUST be true and what CANNOT be true, and with a little patience, the solution emerges. Great fun and very satisfying.

Spirals are a lot of fun. I always do them in Games Magazine. I liked having the numbers in this one for a change of pace. This went very quickly for me; all my guesses were correct and I didn't have to look up anything, quite a relief after the Sunday puzzle.

I agree with Deb, after the acrostic the spiral is a close second, and this one lived up to my expectations. Will's comments were also fascinating. Is there a schedule for the variety types, other than an acrostic every fortnight?

A question: the instructions said "words," while the answers included numerals (12/21). Is this fair?

“Sound Mixers” was an interesting kind of “middle” puzzle.

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The only word that looked hard was “spectrum”.
Obviously not a homophone, and seemingly difficult to anagram.
Then I imagined somebody on a golf course enjoying a typical British snack.

I was so happy to see Spiral again.

[SPOILER ALERT]

This is the first time that I can remember that any of the squares in Spiral had to be filled with digits rather than letters. What made it more tricky was that the question about
a greeting for a President said “2 words”. Well, that was a half-truth worthy of a politician, alright!
The number is not being counted as a word.

Equally tricky was AGENDA. Oh, THAT kind of a “chair”.
This puzzle is very ecumenical in the stretch from 71 down to 61.

I had to search for TRAMS because TROLLEYS did not fit.
Having LASSO threw me off for awhile, then I searched and found RIATA.