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 Port drunk with English Liberal as fuel (6) 9 Green tea brewed by youngster (8) 10 Persuade prisoner to join another fellow (8) 11 Cat takes to a new salad ingredient (6) 12 Growth seen at industrial processing site (5) 13 His camera captured an illegal operation (4) 14 Group of wolves get ready to set off (4) 16 Retain plan by rugby’s first coach (7) 18 Animal finds heartless lady very unpleasant (7) 20 Old friend gets something quite valuable (4) 21 Jog out of bistro, tentatively (4) 22 Scheme involves one airline employee (5) 25 Gloomy maids running to larder, initially (6) 27 Suspicious father managed to get round identification (8) 28 Adapt a cistern so that it holds a film (8) 29 Landlord shows particular character (6)

DOWN

1 About to spiral and spring back (6) 2 Small-town expert gets civil – an eccentric (10) 3 Fellow took soft material to be the hard stuff (5) 4 Extend a term spent in prison (7) 5 Step around hot coal for a month (9) 6 Lamp worn in part of the hand (4) 7 Let vicar be reassessed as upstanding (8) 14 Pasta is one new way to get amorous (10) 15 Tiny metal construction shows frame of mind (9) 17 Agent has battered liars in act of revenge (8) 19 Note similarity of master-of-ceremonies, say (7) 23 Nothing on organ is musical (6) 24 Exercise is a bore (5) 26 Frenchman gets help getting domestic (4)

TO ENTER: Complete the Crossword and count how many times the letter ‘i’ appears in the grid. Then text LANCELOT followed by a space, your answer, name and postcode to 65700, eg LANCELOT 9 John Smith W8 5TT. Texts cost £1 plus your standard network rate. To enter by phone, call 0905 652 2140 and leave your answer and details. Calls cost £1 plus your telephone company’s network access charge. Entries will be accepted until 11.59pm on Friday. See below for terms and conditions. Phone and text Helpline 0808 272 0808.

iSpy winner October 29: Michael Thorpe, of London E16. Last week’s answer: 15