SIR LANCELOT AND HIS PAGE

Every week our gallant knight engages in an amiable joust with his Page. They provide different clues that give the same answers. Sir Lancelot gives the Cryptic Clues and his Page the Quick Clues. Now join them in a game of iSpy for your chance to win £250! Answers next Sunday.

SIR LANCELOT’S CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS 1 New wife takes a short time to turn to sedative (7) 5 Pause for every bung (7) 10 Soon to get a French veto (4) 11 Hop off to get table to snap (10) 12 Say again – queen has a gun (8) 13 Even set out to waste day (6) 14 Graduate gets additive with ultraviolet colour (5) 16 Lecture points to parcel’s destination (9) 19 Ease by rewriting a vile tale (9) 21 It speaks of the end of a river (5) 23 Braggart, say, is to be corrected (6) 25 Intend to find occasion during intermission (8) 27 Series by vets about underwear (6,4) 28 Flavouring that makes money (4) 29 Destiny has to provide sails for warship (7) 30 Find relative at a railway store (7) DOWN 2 Remove soap from broken siren (5) 3 Steer chap to artistic output (9) 4 Stand-in has a job holding record (6) 6 Rust rose out of clothing (8) 7 Quiet desire for elimination (5) 8 Useful to extend pie recipe (9) 9 Unpleasant old religious man concealed outside (6) 15 Large reptile running at gorilla (9) 17 Left in ship with fellow outdoor type (9) 18 It’s difficult, drunk, to be patient (3,5) 20 Moderate one’s mood (6) 22 Jog in a strange trance (6) 24 Part of cake makes yours truly croon audibly (5) 26 Youngster is of lesser importance, we hear (5)