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 Left a novice behind a gate (6) 9 Unattractive to find insect inside a vegetable (8) 10 Scoundrel finds bishop less serious (8) 11 Daughter prepared meals for another girl (6) 12 Bound to have rector heard in court (5) 13 The shape of cricket in London? (4) 14 Free to follow guidelines, initially in the form of this puzzle (4) 16 Sailor gets Mark to stop drinking (7) 18 ’80s pop star is not to be dissuaded (7) 20 Drill shows calibre (4) 21 Furtively take friend to get married (4) 22 Ability of shelf to take kilo (5) 25 Media chief rioted unexpectedly (6) 27 Crate design has to allow for Swiss cheese dish (8) 28 Old group starts to get dressed (8) 29 The French cultivate a yew, giving it scope (6)

DOWN

1 Chicken loses resistance in part of the heating (6) 2 Test beagle using an insect (4,6) 3 Instrument made of glass (5) 4 Agree to wander after a couple of pages (7) 5 Come down on playground item and collapse (9) 6 Most employees have to stop (4) 7 African reign in a confused state (8) 14 Pastime curator works on the estate (10) 15 Thin partition seen amid graph shapes (9) 17 Expansive method, where acting is involved (8) 19 Flushed, reaching a part of America (7) 23 All the ingredients are sufficient to cause death (6) 24 Lads worried about cold or hot injury (5) 26 Reportedly bound to the change in sea level (4)