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)