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

1 Obvious and banal, running round time and time again (7) 5 Confusion has time to make the news (7) 10 Finished six deliveries (4) 11 Apostle incorporates tree rings in missile launcher (10) 12 Celebration of cheese is most abrupt (8) 13 Making an assessment of a sailor (6) 14 More important than an Army man (5) 16 Holiday still seen not quite to make a profit (5,4) 19 Exclamation that’s beneficial to sadness (4,5) 21 Department has height and intensity (5) 23 Principal design for plates (6) 25 Victor finds a chimp badly performing (8) 27 Pet banger to follow (7,3) 28 One editor’s urgent requirement (4) 29 The French husband has plenty of space (7) 30 Wager about mare being switched – I’d put a pint on it (4,3)

DOWN

2 Student always has a jemmy (5) 3 Constructed there to collapse in several parts (9) 4 Carry out plans with Eastern city (6) 6 In here, the reality is exquisite (8) 7 Call for report about union (5) 8 Fighter of certain ability that can’t be built on (5,4) 9 Friendly exchange in pub gets ten drunk (6) 15 U-turn concerning cafe renovation (5-4) 17 First person heard batsman is a revelation (3-6) 18 Use pager to reach soldier, getting nothing but a chord (8) 20 Does work with copper in old money (6) 22 British have a view on some jewellery (6) 24 Difficult question for a model (5) 26 Drama involving a rope (5)