SIR LANCELOT AND HIS PAGE
PLAY ISPY FOR YOUR CHANCE TO 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 Industrial workshop gets one docile (6) 9 Bet raver has broken a bone (8) 10 Aid came – a new form of scholarship (8) 11 Part of the foot is conforming to others (6) 12 Prevent development of attention-seeking event (5) 13 Pressure to honour parking ceremony (4) 14 Back of bus to pull load (4) 16 Reduce price of each work by writer (7) 18 Record poem is included as part of series (7) 20 Chin wobbling a little bit (4) 21 Condition has no time to satisfy (4) 22 Hard to hate cultivated land (5) 25 Hospital employee gets bitter (6) 27 Liking to get swan to sing (8) 28 Eight are generating some cultural tradition (8) 29 Dread father taking cooker to island (6)
DOWN
1 Obtain permissible energy first (6) 2 The grandpa managed to find a way through the grounds (6,4) 3 Be too hard for part of a wicket (5) 4 Flyer reaches starting point by way of hill (7) 5 Water conveyor to exhaust smoker (9) 6 Blessed with not as much (4) 7 Release cargo area into ownership (8) 14 Resist plan by gangster for community of women (10) 15 County padre arranged some cover (9) 17 Pass husband a new port (4,4) 19 Cease activity for every bung (7) 23 Dyeing agent can completely cover woman (6) 24 Furtively shoot pines’ cultivation (5) 26 Suddenly realise it’s part of a tree (4)
TO ENTER: Complete the Crossword and count how many times the letter ‘i’ appears in the grid. Then text LANCELOT followed by a space, your answer, name and postcode to 65700, eg LANCELOT 9 John Smith W8 5TT. Texts cost £1 plus your standard network rate. To enter by phone, call 0905 652 2140 and leave your answer and details. Calls cost £1 plus your telephone company’s network access charge. Entries will be accepted until 11.59pm on Friday. See below for terms and conditions. Phone and text Helpline 0808 272 0808. iSpy winner December 24: Harry Pennington, of Blackburn. Last week’s answer: 11