SIR LANCELOT’S CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
1 Trudge in journeys around a point (7) 5 Important information may be rather unfair (3-4) 10 Pattern of footsteps to the entrance, we hear (4) 11 Editorial on sulphur by fashionable authority (10) 12 President of a furniture company? (8) 13 Betting on old application for other half (6) 14 Honour for being badly lamed (5) 16 Complete a new church, issuing statement (9) 19 Drink to pool developing into another game (5,4) 21 The first companion to agree (5) 23 Spoon sent round with one dangerous substance (6) 25 Cronies worried about a predicted series of events (8) 27 Devastating to omit casual arrangement (10) 28 Heard characters in the river (4) 29 Mention two points to judge (7) 30 Simplicity of putting a city right inside another (7)
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2 In Cairo, a charred fish (5) 3 Terribly certain it would be complex (9) 4 Biblical head-hunter disguised as mole (6) 6 Superior prophet has finished first (8) 7 Party is included by college club (5) 8 Playful wife gets greeting and claims to work (9) 9 Somehow get man an attractive object (6) 15 Woman gets pear to change and disappear (9) 17 Tear a slab off a type of mineral (9) 18 Start shooting at room’s period feature (4,4) 20 Instruction not to wear so much (6) 22 Ship finds victory in Europe less complicated (6) 24 Move up and down like a small fish (5) 26 Sluggish at interchange (5)
THE PAGE’S QUICK CLUES
ACROSS
1 Walk wearily (7) 5 Inside facts (3-4) 10 Manner of walking (4) 11 Guidance (10) 12 Meeting president (8) 13 Husband or wife (6) 14 Commemorative disc (5) 16 Vocal sound (9) 19 Aquatic sport (5,4) 21 Current score (5) 23 Toxic substance (6) 25 Written outline (8) 27 Catastrophic (10) 28 River in Northern England (4) 29 Sports judge (7) 30 Sharpness (7)
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Freshwater fish (5) Very complicated (9) 4 Oscar Wilde play (6) 6 Supervisor (8) 7 Nightclub (5) 8 Playfully quaint (9) 9 Lodestone (6) 15 Turn into vapour (9) 17 Form of gypsum (9) 18 Begin to shoot (4,4) 20 Period of instruction (6) 22 Hollow container (6) 24 Tremble (5) 26 Unable to move (5)