SIR LANCELOT AND HIS PAGE
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 Game girl, good at heart (5) 4 Who are ordered to operate
store? (9) 9 Parking rate – tiny change
in fatherhood (9) 10 Measure excellent breadth (5) 11 Like this, spies left
gathering (6) 12 Fixed limits on headgear (4,4) 14 Clear, old, single scale (9) 15 Weep about every character
being mad (5) 17 Man, head of security,
is in security (5) 19 Provided organ indeed (9) 22 Regaining core, differently,
extremely (8) 24 Crackling is unchanged (6) 26 Yours truly, in conclusion,
is correct (5) 27 Love to share after a party (9) 28 Upsetting me, insane
to go round? Hard cheese (9) 29 Glee about your first sad
poem (5) Down 1 Response ready to include
drunken sot (7) 2 Convey and obtain a religious
sign (3,6) 3 A drag, moving in the old
length (7) 4 Delay gravity, by the sound
of it (4) 5 Natural substance served
at prince’s birthday (5,5) 6 Chap joining father, getting
twitch of the liver (7) 7 Tuvalu doesn’t start to broadcast something behind the tongue (5) 8 Point to my singer inside
official residence (7) 13 Nonsense to use ladder during
party (10) 16 Hit tune started in raid (3,6) 17 Asian university in embers,
sadly (7) 18 As it happens, noise is marked
by experience (5-2) 20 Invalidate it during Evita
performance (7) 21 Month to reach English city, having cold respectability (7) 23 Best thing about some paper (5) 25 Husband getting bird to cry (4)
THE PAGE’S QUICK CLUES
Across 1 Team sport (5) 4 Depot (9) 9 Fatherhood (9) 10 Measure depth (5) 11 Friendly (6) 12 Headwear items (4,4) 14 Absolve from
blame (9) 15 Insane (5) 17 Herb (5) 19 Handed over (9) 22 Recuperation (8) 24 Sluggish (6) 26 Correct (5) 27 Love (9) 28 Swiss cheese (9) 29 Funeral poem (5) Down 1 Witty reply (7) 2 Convey (3,6) 3 Distance (7) 4 Stand by (4) 5 Bee secretion (5,5) 6 Relating to
the liver (7) 7 Hanging extension
above the throat (5) 8 Ambassador’s
residence (7) 13 Nonsense (10) 16 Bombing raid (3,6) 17 Type of cat (7) 18 Showing
experience (5-2) 20 Impair (7) 21 Decorum (7) 23 Dairy product (5) 25 Wail (4)