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 Newspaper boss rioted in an unexpected way (6) 9 Turning grey, halt, showing lack of enthusiasm (8) 10 Tenant to begrudge having form of identification (8) 11 Artist smashed into regular supply (6) 12 Insect has soldier running back to shade (5) 13 The Romans had admirable character (4) 14 Moral responsibility is a chore (4) 16 Very expensive, the French part of the church (7) 18 Mediocre viceroy conceals rift (7) 20 Agreement between parties sounds very full (4) 21 Second fellow takes queen to be a farm worker (4) 22 Inclination to finish animal fodder with vitamin (5) 25 Moderate one’s frame of mind (6) 27 Woman has one illuminated concerning the armed forces (8) 28 A drug to get a heavenly body (8) 29 Daughter argues with you, initially half asleep (6) DOWN 1 Stick notice to this location (6) 2 Series on vet’s new form of underwear (6,4) 3 Detestable person about to peer the other way (5) 4 Pressure on the last-mentioned flat dish (7) 5 Celebrity set of directors is right (9) 6 Fighting on time to get hard growth (4) 7 Coasting around as a sceptical person (8) 14 Key to Darwinism is transfer to a lower level (10) 15 Where one learns to give elegance space (9) 17 Cross art form with poetry (8) 19 Wife gets old Frenchman an old sedative (7) 23 Quietly hears about an expression (6) 24 Drift like an aircraft without a tail (5) 26 Reportedly ask earnestly for a victim (4)
THE PAGE’S QUICK CLUES
ACROSS 8 Newspaper chief (6) 9 Lack of energy (8) 10 Inhabitant (8) 11 Fixed allowance (6) 12 Sandy fawn colour (5) 13 Chief male character (4) 14 Legal obligation (4) 16 Church tower (7) 18 Narrow fissure (7) 20 Formal agreement (4) 21 Historical agricultural labourer (4) 22 Inclined surface (5) 25 Mood (6) 27 Relating to soldiers (8) 28 Small celestial body (8) 29 Sleepy (6) DOWN 1 Stick fast (6) 2 Men’s undergarment (6,4) 3 Move furtively (5) 4 Large dish (7) 5 Right side of a ship (9) 6 Growth on the skin (4) 7 Doubting Thomas (8) 14 Delegation of power (10) 15 Place of learning (9) 17 Go across (8) 19 Soothing statement (7) 23 Group of words (6) 24 Move smoothly and quietly (5) 26 Hunted animal (4)