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 Fight nowadays is included – it bores (7)

5 Old answer – put note in to take the biscuit (7) 10 Creatures that are sung about (4)

11 Expressionless, veers away – that doesn’t even rhyme (5,5)

12 Men managed to get amber shaped into thin layer (8)

13 Left suitable work for a computer (6)

14 Atomiser’s bouquet (5)

16 Vehicle over in production for non-vegetarian (9)

19 Cheat is eccentric and alert (9) 21 Serious, English style of music (5)

23 Sea getting terribly hot is routine (6)

25 Acceptable, having nothing left (3,5)

27 Expansive conversation about small weapon (10)

28 Retardant, not initially useful in the garden (4)

29 For every offence involving a cat (7)

30 Source of pain one couldn’t stand for (7)

Down

2 Extent of anger varied (5) 3 Rush to get directors a set of controls (9)

4 Wife came round holding British computer component (6)

6 Develop a link in beer that’s not acidic (8)

7 Inexpensive sound heard in dawn chorus (5)

8 Peck round another amount in unusual greeting (9)

9 Girl examines first sodium and lead ore (6)

15 Earth, say, about European plant (5,4)

17 Dig river’s unusual discolouration (9)

18 Adore his layout for old country (8)

20 Moving so near ground (6) 22 Winter conveyance gets teasing remark (6)

24 Goes towards the opposite end from tails (5)

26 Steep rise, right for a walker (5)