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 Rich playing Penny on Twitter (5) 4 Painter has month to add speaker (9) 9 Socialist with energy for every ingredient (3,6) 10 Stated pressure does change (5) 11 Stomach contains a large, cold cosmetic (6) 12 Some current game, played with cooked pear (8) 14 Film about key feline uprising (9) 15 Tasty school head gets paid off (5) 17 Brush his tail and cry (5) 19 Expand on the Spanish wearing a boater (9) 22 Right for one improving, worth new increase (8) 24 In favour of insect flying round in front (6) 26 List an item of furniture (5) 27 Providing a coat, king leaves, departing (9) 28 Deliver graduate’s trendy bathroom item (4,5) 29 Furious about European flourish (5)
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1 Steward finds dog on a hill (7) 2 Permanent within shop, British and French article (9) 3 Rep managed to finish, missing last film (7) 4 Conjured up energy with trick (4) 5 Official church confused in morale (10) 6 Forcibly subdue engineers and reporters (7) 7 Inventor of strange tales (5) 8 Communist chief is a colourful character (7) 13 See TV is working – first enjoy biscuits (10) 16 Quiet telegram that generates notes (5,4) 17 Score unlikely to be of the highest quality (7) 18 Saying a word, following expert (7) 20 Was responsible for six deliveries – was wrong (7) 21 Came out East and joined (7) 23 Talk incessantly in the country (5) 25 A French veto is unknown (4)
THE PAGE’S QUICK CLUES Across
1 Sound like a bird (5) 4 House painter (9) 9 Vegetable (3,6) 10 Assumed a position (5) 11 Cosmetic powder (6) 12 Electric current (8) 14 Revolution (9) 15 Pleasant-tasting (5) 17 Use a broom (5) 19 Complicated (9) 22 Renewed expansion (8) 24 Preceding (6) 26 Furniture item (5) 27 Disappearing (9) 28 Bathroom item (4,5) 29 Brandish (5)
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1 Museum custodian (7) 2 Unable to be removed (9) 3 Story of earlier events (7) 4 Hoodwink (4) 5 Relating to state events (10) 6 Quash (7) 7 Unit of magnetic flux density (5) 8 Flame-haired person (7) 13 Wholemeal biscuits (10) 16 Musical steel strands (5,4) 17 Abrade (7) 18 Maxim (7) 20 Supervised (7) 21 Became visible (7) 23 African country (5) 25 Soon (4)