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 £25

SIR LANCELOT’S CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Cyril’s lost for words (5) 4 Ape correct to take out a patent (9) 9 ‘It’s a cloud’ turned out to be a type of sentence (9) 10 Fruit preserve, initially for roly-poly (5) 11 Estimated cost is requiring careful handling (6) 12 I am returning into accommodating home (8) 14 Prophet of doom notes achievement first (9) 15 Odds that sound like quite the reverse (5) 17 Room to put old orchestral instrument (5) 19 Model glad about getting the top prize (4,5) 22 Stop working with a digit and staples (8) 24 Coin is endlessly ornate, to a point (6) 26 Elixir in bed outside – wrong way round (5) 27 Puce denim, ruined by sauce (9) 28 Sole inlet, rocky and most isolated (9) 29 Catholic, efficient and without conviction (5)

DOWN

1 Found light coat screwed up inside (7) 2 Rents fuel out, being bitter (9) 3 Church plays a role in catching disease (7) 4 Gaming counter about to get trendy (4) 5 Intimate chat in the home furnishing department (6,4) 6 Agent threw slate at snake, say (7) 7 Soldier gets gold key from architect (5) 8 Chief not quite so improperly attired (7) 13 Queue to get just the one dossier (6,4) 16 Toleration flourished under cane construction (9) 17 Wealth seen in seat of government (7) 18 Choose one state operating in visible spectrum (7) 20 CID mole performing in musical (7) 21 Left a new bird in the light (7) 23 Saw tonne being moved around (5) 25 Show contempt for a roasting rod (4)