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

1 Make crop due to be delivered (7)

5 Artist’s glee about acquiring registered company (2,5)

10 Husband, also a worker (4) 11 Song happening to be a race (5,5)

12 Chains the French behind second journalist (8)

13 Rush around a river city (6) 14 Saying mother joins cricket team, getting maiden (5) 16 Pleasantries in brief lecture (5,4)

19 Supporter of fashion finds lion nicer, somehow (9) 21 Level that may baffle (5) 23 Single act performed inside that’s extremely volatile (6) 25 Intimidating with hesitation, then cringing in fear (8) 27 Courage to rely on a repository for glass (6,4) 28 British jealousy not new to a large group of people (4) 29 Aural adjustment takes small energy, usually (2,1,4) 30 Listener isn’t worried about showing emotion (2,5)

Down

2 Get to part of the river (5) 3 Conclusion that something’s been taken away (9)

4 Feline let loose on larger animals (6)

6 Enjoy terrible place to a large degree (4,4) 7 Republican finished giving name for dog (5)

8 Singer initially corrected a lot torn apart (9)

9 Romans’ devious demand for money (6)

15 Bad actor promises to be very bad indeed... (9) 17 ...but playing role in list is not too bad (9)

18 Down with instrument, showing sign of spring (8) 20 Divine drink producing strange trance (6)

22 Come round to a vigil at noon (6)

24 Hesitate to take top off and change (5)

26 Not once was nerve lost (5)