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 A lesson without standards (6) 9 I slink off after fellow gets capital (8) 10 Composer with new role as single man (8) 11 Beheaded Olivier is confused and strong (6) 12 Fleas flying? Not true (5) 13 Prohibition includes English food (4) 14 Feel sorry for mine reaching sticky end (4) 16 Betting gold travelled in pouch (7) 18 Brave worker is behind insolence (7) 20 Earth, therefore, is loamy initially (4) 21 Undecided between different ornaments (4) 22 Hide tree on the other side of the street (5) 25 Talk a little about compound (6) 27 Factory block contains current amount of pressure (8) 28 Flavouring, agile, can improve (8) 29 Cheer about having nothing, to be consistent (6)

Down

1 Almost spear a type of antelope (6) 2 Using many instruments in rest – choral composition (10) 3 Sylvester joins lacy edges in a devious way (5) 4 Hire official document (7) 5 One’s anvil turned out to be European (9) 6 Row when stopwatch loses minute (4) 7 Cooked leeks, not bones (8) 14 Predicament about awful toil provides ignition (5,5) 15 Note star broadcast it’s an inflammation (9) 17 Kitty has left sentence in story (8) 19 Misdemeanour, joining a new war (7) 23 Look endlessly at railway when night is not cloudy (6) 24 A way to play guitar showing courage (5) 26 Copies of tapestries (4)