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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

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ACROSS

1 Large order for something alcoholic (5) 4 Outstandin­g for drunk to flop loosely inside (3-6) 9 Point to everyone with daily decor (9) 10 That’s edible? Nonsense (5) 11 Joined a number of teams (6) 12 Fellow treated the rust at the greatest distance (8) 14 Oddly, a tour uses stuff for a wedding (9) 15 Weapon makes bears run off (5) 17 Lighter part of loud fabric (5) 19 Hot child’s thrown something to dry off (9) 22 Sailor finds two chaps rather odd (8) 24 A lesson that’s lacking standards (6) 26 Dog, at points, is a cause of misery (5) 27 Money gets swine something to experiment on (6,3) 28 Choose to have spoken of voters (9) 29 Fish to get old and new material (5)

DOWN

1 What a barrister wears at a trial (7) 2 Soldier takes terribly ill pal around old battle site (9) 3 Quash engineers and journalist­s (7) 4 The kind to use a machine to write (4) 5 Europe tugs away at European (10) 6 Fibs about drink – that’s an understate­ment (7) 7 Men reported manner of representa­tion (5) 8 The rate is different for drama (7) 13 Music fan to go towards a sausage (10) 16 Book is popular, getting round mad harpy (9) 17 Intended money to lose one bearing and gain another (7) 18 Wrong to have soldiers suffering (7) 20 Firm with Frenchman, to look equal (7) 21 Ring to get informatio­n on one of a group of elements (7) 23 Never lost courage (5) 25 Determinat­ion to find a legal document (4)

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