SIR LANCELOT AND HIS PAGE
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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 Friends in part of the theatre (6) 9 Share a lager top when sober (8) 10 Almost convert attorney in, for example, 24 hours (8) 11 Turned blue in sodium cloud (6) 12 About to disfigure a red tree (5) 13 Be aware of king getting present (4) 14 Youngster reaches a Caribbean island (4) 16 Sprain improved with iodine and medicine (7) 18 Wholesale cover (7) 20 Study with a head of college (4) 21 Cajole to get cable (4) 22 Carriage contains a quantity of diamonds (5) 25 Obstacles to the Spanish girl (6) 27 Distribute ration with party food (8) 28 London police in a ride around Circle Line (8) 29 Look for a very quiet listener (6)
DOWN
1 Pressure to join wild corsair (6) 2 Charge a catholic copper with swimming in oats (10) 3 Chief finds shandy ultimately potent (5) 4 Mary threw away a book, being a social creature (4,3) 5 Now set out to get everyone to be obstructive (9) 6 The first mob trashed vault (4) 7 I will go back in – story might be wrong (8) 14 Fruit tin to leap out round turn (10) 15 Cut eclair badly, then spread (9) 17 Plot involved scare in capital of Oman (8) 19 Eccentric queen absorbed in violence (7) 23 An American woman is not at home (6) 24 Reportedly have to use dough (5) 26 Total zero at sport (4)
THE PAGE’S QUICK CLUES ACROSS
8 Round figure (6) 9 Based on logic (8) 10 Part of the weekend (8) 11 Cloud of gas (6) 12 Type of tree (5) 13 Be acquainted with (4) 14 Caribbean nation whose capital is Havana (4) 16 Painkiller (7) 18 Bed cover (7) 20 College head (4) 21 Persuade gradually (4) 22 Unit of gem weight (5) 25 Young woman (6) 27 Indian cuisine (8) 28 Breadth (8) 29 Seem (6)
DOWN
1 Corsair (6) 2 Allegation (10) 3 Intoxicating (5) 4 Tropical insect (4,3) 5 Obstruct by being evasive (9) 6 Burial chamber (4) 7 Liable to be erroneous (8) 14 Type of melon (10) 15 Move freely (9) 17 Film’s plot (8) 19 Source of power (7) 23 Out of the country (6) 24 Work dough (5) 26 Japanese wrestling (4)