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 Growth shown by power producer (5) 4 Idle when without an underskirt (9) 9 Slow to get claret nut drunk (9) 10 Crease left in solid fuel (5) 11 Wise quintuplet conceals a spangle (6) 12 After morning, boar is cooked, making divine fare (8) 14 Novice to loosen grasp in form of ownership (9) 15 Doctor gets a French king under the influence (5) 17 Move down to take large mixture (5) 19 Complaining as dynasty takes total (9) 22 Nice, emotional appeals to get a book (8) 24 Engineers always included esteem (6) 26 Entertain a source of inspiration (5) 27 Cricket team gets three points, then has a snack (9) 28 Choose to have spoken about those eligible to vote (9) 29 Retail suffered without a decorator (5) DOWN 1 Soldiers get round lake to get solar protection (7) 2 Everyone old-fashioned and equally matched (3,6) 3 Diplomacy sending lie out is touching (7) 4 Cleaner often seen before opera (4) 5 I would suggest going round to discourage by threats (10) 6 Thanks for every journalist that got thinner (7) 7 Probability still got small (5) 8 Group returned to a reversal of recovery (7) 13 Appropriate military officer to have energy (10) 16 General put out naive slur (9) 17 Initially blowing current on surface of aircraft (7) 18 All right to accept school is in decline (7) 20 Basic substance that provides heat (7) 21 Musical right for a mechanic (7) 23 The Spanish due to arrange dodge (5) 25 Stumbled on regional mountain (4)