SIR LANCELOT AND HIS PAGE
PLAY ISPY FOR YOUR CHANCE TO WIN £250!
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 Discuss getting island a source of softwood (7) 5 Upset about unknown student being a loan shark (7) 10 Drake elated without capsize (4) 11 Fellow has approximate boarder’s last regular payment (6,4) 12 Sculpted bust first appeared as a mule (8) 13 Group of musicians caught family getting help (4,2) 14 Electrician has a twinkle (5) 16 Star had included European ship (9) 19 Ted, worried about coal, is organising move (9) 21 Quarrel with English succession (5) 23 I would walk irregularly at first, that’s clear (6) 25 Royal Mile, say (8) 27 Subtle twitch follows qualification (10) 28 Woman is almost from Dublin (4) 29 The essence of The Flintstones? (7) 30 Bile spread about nothing – returning cocktail (7)
Down
2 Finished on time, that’s obvious (5) 3 One pound – generous but intolerant (9) 4 Encourage knight – ‘Go back and drink’ (6) 6 Man had ordered keys bespoke (8) 7 Cyril’s lost for words (5) 8 Hopeful if Don is rolling in money (9) 9 Bob has you, ultimately, in his head (6) 15 I have to follow Tim back after rip-off, simple (9) 17 I am incomplete and neutral (9) 18 Lecturer is not practical (8) 20 Needing a drink – not small amount (6) 22 Tribe puts father in pain (6) 24 Opposite and equal, having nothing left (5) 26 Strange to find an untruth hidden inside (5)
THE PAGE’S QUICK CLUES Across
1 Type of tree (7) 5 Shakespearean character (7) 10 Ship’s base (4) 11 Leaseholder’s payment (6,4) 12 Obstinate (8) 13 Lend a hand (4,2) 14 Fiery particle (5) 16 Main act (9) 19 Put out of joint (9) 21 Series (5) 23 Transparent (6) 25 Non-metric (8) 27 Tactful (10) 28 Eye part (4) 29 Substructure (7) 30 Italian composer (7)
Down
2 Observable (5) 3 Narrow-minded (9) 4 Sweet alcoholic drink (6) 6 Not made in a factory (8) 7 Song’s words (5) 8 Self-assured (9) 9 Spring back (6) 15 Characteristic of early stages of human development (9) 17 Unbiased (9) 18 Scholastic (8) 20 Number (6) 22 Native American tribe (6) 24 Arctic (5) 26 Extraterrestrial (5)