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
1 Attendant takes a book to be entertainment (7) 5 Composer making start of rhapsody, huge, is in trouble (7) 10 Decimal transaction includes grain (4) 11 Cabinet transported by a current (10) 12 Member excited about a new film (8) 13 Consented to get a vice (6) 14 Diminish value of territory with parking (5) 16 African finds Haiti open to change (9) 19 Twitch after finding gold at that time was real (9) 21 Pottery does break with pressure (5) 23 Head of news rioted unexpectedly (6) 25 Correspondent about to have a beer (8) 27 Greek character left – sombre time for a journey (10) 28 Voice changed a lot (4) 29 Fashionable command is neat and tidy (2,5) 30 Heard feeble conclusion to leisure time (7)
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2 Come round to a celebration (5) 3 Demonstrate his tables are incorrect (9) 4 Canter off to get a drink (6) 6 Terribly irate cop becomes histrionic (8) 7 Bores about not being drunk (5) 8 To be overprotective towards rude man is wrong (9) 9 Main ventricle has to make something new (6) 15 Hammer gesture found on a keyboard (5,4) 17 Daily returned to a book (9) 18 Green form is initially easy to animate (8) 20 Encroachment, but not on the pavement (6) 22 Odds on this place being a domain (6) 24 Row about garden’s first animal (5) 26 Notes can snub a restaurant (3,2)
THE PAGE’S QUICK CLUES ACROSS
1 Public procession (7) 5 Italian composer (7) 10 Grain for distilling (4) 11 City in Kent (10) 12 Thin, pliable barrier (8) 13 Concurred (6) 14 Ruin (5) 16 Eastern African (9) 19 Genuine (9) 21 Type of porcelain (5) 23 Newspaper chief (6) 25 Member of the press (8) 27 Holy expedition (10) 28 Singing voice (4) 29 Shipshape (2,5) 30 Saturday and Sunday (7)
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2 Fully conscious (5) 3 Set up (9) 4 Sugary fluid (6) 6 Extravagantly theatrical (8) 7 Muted in colour (5) 8 Minder of young children (9) 9 Create (6) 15 Symbol for sterling (5,4) 17 Soft-covered book (9) 18 Stimulate (8) 20 Hostile attack (6) 22 Globe (6) 24 Feline (5) 26 Dine at home (3,2)