The Scottish Mail on Sunday

SIR LANCELOT’S CRYPTIC CLUES

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ACROSS 9 Crawler about to peer the other way (5) 10 Animated character joins miners’ union, captivatin­g one element (9) 11 Hot trial complicate­d by new series of events (9) 12 Small copper gets doubly large paddle (5) 13 Informatio­n on the German female, say (6) 14 Patience as cost is spiralling about one motorway (8) 16 I initially managed to overtake at the last stand-off (7) 18 Target – to hire out some clothes (7) 20 Green is wrong, needing red centre to invigorate (8) 22 Sluggish form of electricit­y (6) 25 Trees go up to junction at the beginning (5) 26 Ivan sent Georgia to hill, being a pilot (9) 28 Rent sewer out to American, say (9) 29 Love a party when joined by engineers (5) DOWN 1 Singing like a small feline (4) 2 Lone operation involves soldier among many (6) 3 Notice fewer are really clean (8) 4 Arrange letters for a short period of time (5) 5 Hair, in true transforma­tion, makes household items (9) 6 Tiny art form displaying no bias (6) 7 Reckon on taking in a small bit of sculpture (8) 8 Camel bit me as ordered by representa­tive (10) 13 Over a pound to see wolf running to get bird (6,4) 15 Thought process creates improvemen­t in oranges (9) 17 Mix is purely for a particular disease (8) 19 Adjusting triangle is necessary to make a whole complete (8) 21 German voice from the side of the road (6) 23 Military entertainm­ent show personal design (6) 24 Compositio­n’s second change for organ (5) 27 Stagger to see a film (4)

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