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 Fellow forced smile – hard language (7)

5 Pictures showing Tim travelling in Rolls (7)

10 Police department has to yield (4)

11 Loans a beer out – that’s fair (10)

12 Berate pursuit – it’s back in (8)

13 Careful about the empty liquid (6)

14 Afford a supplement­ary item (5)

16 Trouble-maker finds article on dome first (9)

19 Aim is not new unknown hatred (9)

21 Raged about degree (5) 23 Single daughter, say, returns, anxious (2,4) 25 Nuisance, dreadful toil surroundin­g artistic material (3,5)

27 Hidden? Excellent (3,2,5) 28 God of both orders (4) 29 Composed air about cake (7)

30 Desensitis­e about a Norse broadcast (7)

Down

2 Audible echoes consuming bloodsucke­r (5)

3 Sort meal out with medium commotion (9)

4 Attack to arrange, that is (6) 6 Tough stuff, making press function (8)

7 Designated worker follows this writer (5)

8 Spread oil around and split (9)

9 A vet worked with navy in pub (6)

15 Writer almost inward-looking in cape (9)

17 As of now, fare there has changed (9)

18 Fools like this registered judge (8)

20 Approximat­e time before getting manger (6) 22 Intoxicate­d by British game (6)

24 Go on about a remote control device (5)

26 Feature includes old rope (5)

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