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 £250! Answers next Sunday.

SIR LANCELOT’S CRYPTIC CLUES Across

8 English lesson starts to build character (6) 9 Single ship – that’s a joke (3-5) 10 King had A-grades sent round a long time ago (4,4) 11 London police U-turn also included bike (6) 12 Myth erased greeting from the past (5) 13 Friend is about to smell (4) 14 Chewed last part of the snack (4) 16 Way to get impolite student a dessert (7) 18 Apple puree with last of that potassium – inspiring words (3,4) 20 Made drunk by a sweet concoction (4) 21 Showed contempt in a trifling argument (4) 22 Local game in Midlands city (5) 25 Broadcast, after a singular approval (6) 27 Thanks to Milan’s strange charm (8) 28 Splendour and danger spread around old city (8) 29 Wrote a drama about a lot of ships (6)

Down

1 Lab comes up with bed exterior in metal (6) 2 Framework is returned, with reason (10) 3 Gauge method in report (5) 4 Bishop, terribly short, gets cold soup (7) 5 Prophet takes pet round to doctor for 30 days (9) 6 Manner is miserly, by the sound of it (4) 7 Changing speed, volunteers left base (8) 14 Irritating sibling lost resistance, and then some (10) 15 County with trite form for accommodation (9) 17 Government department’s attempt to conceal a sure solution (8) 19 New steam railway shows superiority (7) 23 Group has right to my last drink (6) 24 Hide coal delivered by kilo (5) 26 Bird in another nest (4)