The Scottish Mail on Sunday

SIR LANCELOT’S CRYPTIC CLUES

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Across

1 Turn Democrat in island for glory (5) 4 Dance put an end to pavement game (9) 9 He bears witness to site refit having gone wrong (9) 10 Peer at new boar recipe first (5) 11 That woman has too twisted a nose (6) 12 Some hot weather brings 20 round church to river (8) 14 Do point to everything being a common feature (5,4) 15 Shy and stupid to object on going back (5) 17 Imagined report coming from visitor (5) 19 Giant mice variety – that is mysterious (9) 22 Ability to read brings real city improvemen­t (8) 24 Hold fellow in olden style (6) 26 Husband has desire to get a predatory animal (5) 27 Transporti­ng a tonne for some time (9) 28 Nice nomad somehow acquired mastery (9) 29 Article with yours truly as subject (5)

Down

1 Sailing boat at university? Sauce! (7) 2 Daughter is on track in conversati­on (9) 3 Agent has awful, dire sort of handwritin­g (7) 4 Greet cold weather (4) 5 Left copper breaking sill on gate (10) 6 Bear and cat performing for entertainm­ent (7) 7 Light orchard has particular sort of light (5) 8 Number includes Hispanic leader and German socialist (7) 13 Daily feature about a form of decoration (5,5) 16 Undergroun­d solution to omen is good for time-keeping (9) 17 Formal celebratio­n thrown by a knight (7) 18 Coach takes queen to the country (7) 20 Frenchman damages retina in tower (7) 21 Can cede to change last few bars (7) 23 Some heat from another machine (5) 25 School yet to deal with inflammati­on (4)

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