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 £25

SIR LANCELOT’S CRYPTIC CLUES

Across 1 Bishop takes steps to get an inflated bag (7) 5 Elegant, Roy cooked bitter ingredient (7) 10 Sheet of metal to prevent success (4) 11 Check declared and put back in position (10) 12 Cold cream is used in China (8) 13 Northerner finds Mike so awkward (6) 14 Sharp, getting a group of detectives right inside (5) 16 Eccentric tailor may show absence of standards (9) 19 Relative gets drip to run unknown race (5,4) 21 A little something – last of mutton in fire (5) 23 Doctor and sailor possess registered gun (6) 25 Breaks stolen summary (8) 27 Simple way to get security (4,6) 28 Island bickering starts with small bird (4) 29 Dog and mother settling initial argument (7) 30 Railway supporter is a secret agent (7) Down 2 Get beaten, having nothing approximate (5) 3 Dog wagging a damn tail (9) 4 Wear out soldier, returning insect (6) 6 Bar entertainer, rely on rewriting (8) 7 Lack recipe with hard cheese? Hardly (5) 8 Curate and him somehow united in pain (9) 9 Stupid calculation for food (3,3) 15 An artist puts coal, say, before a sauce (9) 17 Come down on playground item and collapse (9) 18 Drink for a supernatural being, terribly fit (8) 20 Part of shoe that’s conforming (6) 22 Business group caught by later development (6) 24 Sample sweet extremities at meeting (5) 26 Sheepish round wine producer (5) iSpy winner March 3: Brian Beattie, of Garden City, Flintshire. Last week’s answer: 10