The Scottish Mail on Sunday

SIR LANCELOT AND HIS PAGE

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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 Church of the sun embracing an academic (7) 5 Accede to change with new vocal quality (7) 10 Left undiscover­ed, initially, in iron chimney (4) 11 Naive celebratio­n for some politician­s (5,5) 12 Indifferen­t to distance, having no confidence (4,4) 13 One’s problem with religious scholar being wet (6) 14 Dish as ordered by boy (5) 16 Young lady to object to an eccentric payment method (5,4) 19 Violence by titular arrangemen­t (9) 21 Fellow lied, out to pasture (5) 23 Saucy, losing gold article in lawnmower (6) 25 Terminator has queen pursuing some crows (8) 27 Jam and wine comes out of it (10) 28 Wrong war generated ultimate victory (4) 29 Crawler to stop at the surface (7) 30 Well-behaved worker at the hospital (7)

Down

2 Room to put old instrument (5) 3 Finished with a sketch of borrowing facility (9) 4 Viewpoint right for a sportsman (6) 6 Sceptic is acting so out of sorts (8) 7 Animal from European terrain (5) 8 Cartel had interfered with building (9) 9 Pay to get comfortabl­e (6) 15 Bad actor promises to be really bad (9) 17 Increased lawlessnes­s by mice somehow gets registered by greeting (5,4) 18 Flower is down by telephone (8) 20 Moderate one’s state of mind (6) 22 Even more short of money than agent (6) 24 The first irritation is his lack of stature (5) 26 Forced loner to sign up (5)

THE PAGE’S QUICK CLUES Across

1 Learned person (7) 5 Musical ending (7) 10 Smoke duct (4) 11 Environmen­talist politician­s (5,5) 12 Loss of nerve (4,4) 13 Saturated (6) 14 Cold dish (5) 16 Payment method (5,4) 19 Great cruelty (9) 21 Area of open land (5) 23 Crop-cutting tool (6) 25 Assassin (8) 27 Traffic jam (10) 28 Not right (4) 29 Road surfacing (7) 30 Methodical­ly arranged (7)

Down

2 Stringed instrument (5) 3 Bank account deficit (9) 4 Fisherman (6) 6 Doubting Thomas (8) 7 Antelope (5) 8 Large church (9) 9 Reach an agreement (6) 15 Horrifying­ly wicked (9) 17 Increase in lawbreakin­g (5,4) 18 Woodland plant (8) 20 Frame of mind (6) 22 Dealer (6) 24 Small person (5) 26 Register as a member (5)

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