SIR LANCELOT AND HIS PAGE WIN £250

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 Less sensitive to quantity (6) 9 Intermission finds bear wandering in wood (3,5) 10 Skin cream is only skin-deep (8) 11 Shabby sort of dagger (6) 12 Food an energetic person may be full of (5) 13 Vapour removed front side (4) 14 Hope audibly for a quarry (4) 16 Words concealing nothing – European is loquacious (7) 18 She ain’t moving too quickly (2,5) 20 Shivering fit is unclear, but not initially (4) 21 About to acquire work, fastening (4) 22 Stand kings getting one so wrong (5) 25 Ran after pure report (6) 27 Loved getting chutney with journalist (8) 28 Physical actor mustn’t rewrite article (8) 29 See glass almost fall (6)

Down

1 Hide mineral in outcry (6) 2 Odious as a snowman (10) 3 Create prose to sound correct (5) 4 Top of sideboard gets nailed and put in a queue (7) 5 Ritual meant cars crashed (9) 6 Container includes rook and crow (4) 7 Same problem in crooked floor (8) 14 Very quiet pain is spreading and is worrying doctor (10) 15 Made torso out as part of a plane (9) 17 With renewed energy, encourage first ingredient (3,5) 19 Economical season holds answer (7) 23 Determined to like an alloy (6) 24 Glass instrument (5) 26 Carry a tune in class, in German (4)

THE PAGE’S QUICK CLUES Across

8 Integer (6) 9 Pause for refreshment (3,5) 10 Superficial (8) 11 Tattered (6) 12 Legumes (5) 13 Squad (4) 14 Victim (4) 16 Wordy (7) 18 Hurried (2,5) 20 Fever (4) 21 Cord (4) 22 Booth (5) 25 Pursued (6) 27 Enjoyed (8) 28 Actor’s stand-in (8) 29 Fall down (6)

Down

1 Commotion (6) 2 Loathsome (10) 3 Compose (5) 4 Piled (7) 5 Religious ceremony (9) 6 Boast (4) 7 Lowest floor (8) 14 Very quietly (10) 15 Aircraft’s window (9) 17 Albumen (3,5) 19 Frugal (7) 23 Unfeeling (6) 24 Woodwind instrument (5) 26 Croon (4)

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