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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

8 Stop taking run where batsman stands (6) 9 I read about one politician starting to be diminished (8) 10 Rely on lurch in finance (8) 11 Make an effort to include parking authority (6) 12 Reported first appearance in bed (5) 13 Selected to take top off, and stockings (4) 14 Hope elephant has a tough skin (4) 16 By the sound of it, a seasoning is a hit (7) 18 Mother used steel from an island (7) 20 Wife gets one greeting or another (4) 21 Forest club (4) 22 Graduates surround medium snake (5) 25 Singer has a small, second drink (6) 27 Loading a constructi­on that’s slanting (8) 28 This third lantern put out, not outside (8) 29 Musical instrument not in the drink (6)

Down

1 Turn barn out – last of produce gets refined (6) 2 Mad thing in two containers (6,4) 3 Move out, carrying new toxin (5) 4 Invoice charged item for a huge amount (7) 5 Fleeting note – help mare running about (9) 6 Slip of the lips? (4) 7 Fellow listener, not quite so brave (8) 14 Mathematic­ian sorted out trophy saga (10) 15 Developing into affair protecting debtor (9) 17 Devastatin­g screening, initially about object (8) 19 Transporti­ng gold on a boat (7) 23 Fire right for an item of clothing (6) 24 Equal to a competitio­n (5) 26 Appear to join, say (4)

THE PAGE’S QUICK CLUES

Across

8 Folded ridge (6) 9 Weakened (8) 10 Support financiall­y (8) 11 Knowledgea­ble person (6) 12 Ship’s bed (5) 13 Garden implement (4) 14 Fruit skin (4) 16 Attack (7) 18 Mediterran­ean islander (7)

20 Greeting gesture (4) 21 Building material (4) 22 Snake (5) 25 Second drink (6) 27 Crosswise (8) 28 Domestic (8) 29 Type of wine (6)

Down

1 Refined in manner (6) 2 Nervous person (6,4) 3 Poison (5)

4 Large number (7) 5 Transitory (9) 6 Speech impediment (4) 7 Courageous (8) 14 Greek mathematic­ian (10) 15 Blooming (9) 17 Extremely critical (8) 19 Venetian boat (7) 23 Jacket (6) 24 Sporting contest (5) 26 Appear (4)

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