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 Tiny part of French ending (6) 9 Protective garment for actor in a performance (8) 10 Dismissal after man gets some army attire (8) 11 Listen out for embellishment (6) 12 Heard critical appraisal as form of entertainment (5) 13 Overcome agoraphobe’s terrible bearing (4) 14 Make a drink, back among fewer beverages (4) 16 Implement gets university student a quarrel first (7) 18 Dark dresser has left one a philistine (7) 20 Barrister’s first lie spread bitterness (4) 21 Melanie has enthusiastic style (4) 22 Peas cooked with large part of flower (5) 25 Take the edge off this end, frequently (6) 27 Suggest getting familiar (8) 28 I trusted in new arrangement for waste (8) 29 Monster grabs registered ally (6)
Down
Cancel directions 1 2 to entrance (6) Dull finish, following insufficiency (10) 3 Nutrition around lake and swamp (5) 4 Squander something deep-fried (7) 5 Speech, at heart, is something to be typed later (9) 6 Basic, only packing a religious image (4) 7 Map even confused the initial walkway (8) 14 Dim seabird flying around as a wedding feature (10) 15 Change neat order and take turns (9) 17 Convict trades second with old killer (8) 19 Artist and friend going round island on ship (7) 23 Deputy in the theatre (6) 24 Small argument, being unyielding (5) 26 Twist top of the vase (4)
THE PAGE’S QUICK CLUES Across
8 Individual part or element (6) 9 Outdoor garment (8) 10 Military footwear (8) 11 Christmas decoration (6) 12 Sketch show (5) 13 Optimal (4) 14 Make beer (4) 16 Cooking implement (7)
18 Biblical giant (7) 20 Liver secretion (4) 21 Swagger (4) 22 Flower part (5) 25 Alleviate (6) 27 Friendly (8) 28 Waste matter (8) 29 Pal (6)
Down
1 Nullify (6) 2 Uninspired (10) 3 Deluge (5) 4 Deep-fried snack (7)
5 Recorded speech (9) 6 Devotional painting (4) 7 Pedestrian path (8) 14 Wedding attendant (10) 15 Every other (9) 17 Murderer (8) 19 French painter (7) 23 Performing (6) 24 Rigid (5) 26 Rotate (4)