The Scottish Mail on Sunday

SIR LANCELOT’S CRYPTIC CLUES

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Across

9 Sailor takes a bit of poetry home (5) 10 River rose erraticall­y to provide a supply of water (9) 11 Simple and proper, I have to follow object (9) 12 Something of value, as arranged (5) 13 Learnt to work out regular payment (6) 14 Thinker about to mix beer with spirit (8) 16 Fled to develop shock treatment as sidetrack (7) 18 Wrong about soldiers showing anguish (7) 20 Indulged in such a way as to be deceiving (8) 22 Mother’s twitch is caused by sealant (6) 25 Children are an important matter (5) 26 Establish cuts make noise come out (9) 28 Remedy seen as angelic treatment (9) 29 Provoke first woman to accept average (5)

Down

1 Instrument is out of tune, but not initially (4) 2 Formal proposal produces some movement (6) 3 Cite lead, implausibl­y, as being fragile (8) 4 Teach skills in art management (5) 5 Utter nonsense about woman getting European attendant (9) 6 Where the batsman stands, about right to relax (6) 7 Prisoner has to wait for preparatio­n of fruit (8) 8 I’m chattier about the manipulati­on of numbers (10) 13 Socialist officer describes an insect (3,7) 15 Tolerate simple instructio­n to relax (5,4) 17 Fellow led away to fight for a mineral (8) 19 One dares to go off and be sensible (8) 21 Dig up doctor at the border (6) 23 Journey too much for supporter of photograph­y (6) 24 Parking, alternativ­ely, next to church veranda (5) 27 Not as many lose their head in the jug (4)

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