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

8 Stage, wearing jester’s last expression (6) 9 Rule riot another way that’s intentionally concealed (8) 10 Area also surround bad luck as a city (8) 11 Deal with unknown formal agreement (6) 12 Thaw out around Estonia’s top crop (5) 13 Yield a plant ovule, say (4) 14 Open a glass container (4) 16 Proper tea brewed for a clergyman (7) 18 Arranges petals with right implement (7) 20 Garden sheltered by renewed energy (4) 21 Deity has left something precious (4) 22 Get fellow to make an engraving (5) 25 Hubble’s first planet was his symbolic home (6) 27 Appointed hour, with some adjustment (8) 28 Game that shows self-restraint (8) 29 Falsify a medical practitioner (6)

DOWN

1 The endless hurry for a singer (6) 2 Returned with some meat and game (10) 3 Temper forced earl to get cross (5) 4 Impediment on river gets someone on track (7) 5 Law is about an alien figure (9) 6 Your gentleman hides a desire (4) 7 Marketplace for outdoor footwear (4,4) 14 A couple of pages by rector tempt novice (10) 15 Agents had upset an acting assistant (9) 17 Communist cared about a tree (3,5) 19 Threaten to put good mark on terrible result (7) 23 Green is seen on a daily basis (6) 24 Leave union attorney some foreign cheese (5) 26 Almost regretting total destruction (4)