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 Tank caught one at the back (7) 5 Use the wrong key in hazy exercise (7) 10 Hero left something with a charge (4) 11 Lacking emotion, hide a TV (10) 12 A rich and eccentric creature (8) 13 Half the diameter is bone (6) 14 Betting student rings before film (5) 16 Put an embargo on gloomy table (9) 19 Angry exchange you’re looking at (9) 21 Toccata’s second change on organ (5) 23 Plot is involving a weapon (6) 25 You will get drawn, say, into seasonal festivity (8) 27 Top aspirations found at end of message (4,6) 28 Insurance is never-ending in bay (4) 29 Keeping wise man going round hill (7) 30 A lift’s broken – your first lie (7)
Down
2 Here in France, queen is less affectionate (5) 3 Determined, the missing husband can overturn promises (9) 4 Pay back concerning financial reserve (6) 6 Order isn’t worried about unfinished lorry (8) 7 It changes colour when weary (5) 8 It goes before expert gets strange curse right (9) 9 Composer makes a name, by the sound of it (6) 15 Appropriate to be cheeky in hospital department (9) 17 Visit clue about what follows Exodus (9) 18 Inform about healthy blister, say (8) 20 They harm translation with no vowels showing regular pattern (6) 22 A bit of blood, as lamp got broken (6) 24 Trout cooked a certain way for teacher (5) 26 Dorothy puts four inside missing part of the lawn (5)
THE PAGE’S QUICK CLUES Across
1 Water tank (7) 5 Hit the wrong key (7) 10 Large feline (4) 11 Type of TV (10) 12 Spider-like creature (8) 13 Arm bone (6) 14 Cylinder for thread (5) 16 Boycott (9) 19 Type of puzzle (9)
21 Reproductive organ (5) 23 Firearm (6) 25 Christmastime (8) 27 Letter ending (4,6) 28 Inlet (4) 29 Data retention (7) 30 Untruth (7)
Down
2 More frozen (5) 3 Persistent (9) 4 Repayment (6)
6 Teach (8) 7 Exhausted (5) 8 Forerunner (9) 9 German composer (6) 15 Relevant (9) 17 Old Testament book (9) 18 Expanding (8) 20 Regular musical pattern (6) 22 Blood constituent (6) 24 Educator (5) 26 Piece of turf (5)