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 Terribly cool, heartless chap follows energy and science (7)

5 Name right for a wrangler (7) 10 Good time for an explosion (4)

11 Medic gets all cute, cooking some meat (4,6)

12 Fascinate – that’s a way in (8)

13 Go on about doctor having started as a singer (6)

14 Fool gets by in canyon (5) 16 Organising penniless circle (9)

19 Heap soon formed around unknown instrument (9) 21 Motorist has no right to be an athlete (5)

23 First character ran off, taking old king to be an obsessive (6) 25 Approximate number at start of fight (5,3)

27 Excited to hand over charged particle with boiling tea (10)

28 Damn almonds (4)

29 Declare suits yet to be out and about (7)

30 At home, audible impression of gall (7)

Down

2 About to get depressed by knight and jester (5)

3 Wine makes youngster scour compound (9)

4 Providing six, no-good soldier is in front (6)

6 Rude hack upset peer (8) 7 The same two marks? (5) 8 Endless crisis, the last arrival (9)

9 Rush into a job (6)

15 Notion of greeting British weather first (9)

17 Routine working in new arcade (4,5)

18 Small fish no longer available to lose (5,3)

20 Old Frenchman, new

Roman, possibly (6) 22 Adolescent around ancient city is a dish (6)

24 Tries desperately to take exam again (5)

26 Observes stone being thrown (5)

THE PAGE’S QUICK CLUES

Across

1 Branch of biology (7) 5 Animal trainer (7) 10 Period of prosperity (4)

11 Meat, grilled or fried (4,6)

12 Means of access (8) 13 Songbird with a forked tail (6)

14 Chasm (5) 16 Negotiating (9)

19 Wind instrument (9)

21 Frogman (5) 23 Waterproof jacket (6) 25 Start of boxing match (5,3)

27 Ardent (10) 28 Pistachios, eg (4) 29 Give evidence (7) 30 Provoke to anger (7)

Down

2 Circus performer (5) 3 Italian wine (9) 4 Generous (6)

6 Aristocrat (8)

7 The same (5) 8 Appearance (9) 9 Profession (6)

15 Good idea (9) 17 Weather-inducing ritual (4,5)

18 Rid oneself of (5,3) 20 French invader (6) 22 Soup dish (6)

24 Take a test again (5) 26 Musical sounds (5)