The Scottish Mail on Sunday

SIR LANCELOT AND HIS PAGE

PLAY ISPY FOR YOUR CHANCE TO WIN £250!

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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 Local variation in citadel design (7) 5 Friendly drink involving fruit (7) 10 His camera captured a dodgy enterprise (4) 11 Engineers and soldiers hiding flag on time after work (10) 12 Leave fast after key dismissal (5-3) 13 Brave Frenchman with a new flu treatment (6) 14 Stop a liberal being trite (5) 16 Check police are getting support (9) 19 True Roman revolution­ary finds part of a fraction (9) 21 Look to find rates have been reviewed (5) 23 Frank also seen among detectives (6) 25 Hang about, that is, in underwear (8) 27 Routine outside is with boy making unpleasant noise (10) 28 The shape of cricket in London (4) 29 Dignify Ben and Noel in new arrangemen­t (7) 30 Jealous character to return greeting (7)

Down

2 Evoke trendy dog (5) 3 Feeble afterthoug­ht had included a bit of decor (9) 4 Incentive, finding a religious man in bed (6) 6 Drone about catching chap awaiting trial (2,6) 7 Show Nigerian leader has spirit (5) 8 Presenter woman a little bit right (9) 9 Restrain flies flying around the top (6) 15 Do a Latin translatio­n about Augustus’s second worship (9) 17 Exactly where one’s glasses go (2,3,4) 18 Shade is of the greatest importance (8) 20 Former pupil to yearn to get into shape (6) 22 Create vine layout by the book (6) 24 Bored, I scout around a nightclub (5) 26 At home with a couple of students added together (2,3)

THE PAGE’S QUICK CLUES

Across

1 Regional accent (7) 5 Warm and friendly (7) 10 Dishonest scheme (4) 11 Stopping working (10) 12 Rejection (5-3) 13 Courageous (6) 14 Hackneyed (5) 16 Strengthen (9) 19 Top part of a fraction (9) 21 Look fixedly (5) 23 Outspoken (6) 25 Women’s underwear (8) 27 Lack of harmony (10) 28 Ellipse (4) 29 Provide with a title (7) 30 Shakespear­e play (7)

Down

2 Bring upon oneself (5) 3 Decorative cover (9) 4 Root vegetable (6) 6 In custody pending trial (2,6) 7 Evil spirit (5) 8 Radio presenter (9) 9 Suffocate (6) 15 Hero worship (9) 17 Precisely (2,3,4) 18 Roman Catholic dignitary (8) 20 Rectangula­r object (6) 22 Originate (6) 24 Style of music (5) 26 Altogether (2,3)

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