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

8 Hear about taking Marks for pound (6) 9 Very hot current is about right (8) 10 Broadcast a trailer about a main road (8) 11 Get comfortable at home with the French (6) 12 Assert mollusc has start of indigestion (5) 13 Throw a ball at a basin (4) 14 Another day with a few cows (4) 16 At home, timer’s assembly is provisional (7) 18 Ruler gets star in a swirl (7) 20 Barrel is an object of ridicule (4) 21 Run with short steps out of bistro, tentatively (4) 22 Don’t eat with energy at banquet (5) 25 Opulent leader follows round in strange mink garment (6) 27 Grotesque figure makes royal egg delivery (8) 28 Part of plane has safety device as gale breaks out (8) 29 Vegetable new to the country (6)

DOWN

1 Container from pub left with engineers (6) 2 Obstruction as rascal makes time end badly (10) 3 Fellow to complain of being feeble (5) 4 List gets confused with weight of cheese (7) 5 Unproductive as an over-used pencil (9) 6 Feel the lack of a young woman (4) 7 Copper carries a lord off with new pot (8) 14 Imperial unit might follow shore, vaguely (10) 15 Turn calf into one that’s imaginary (9) 17 Until a development reaches American mollusc (8) 19 Old king throws lemon out for nondescript dog (7) 23 Ill temper spotted around public library initially (6) 24 Stupid, crashing car against ship (5) 26 Finished a series of deliveries (4)