SIR LANCELOT AND HIS PAGE

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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

9 Clean off an old weapon (5) 10 Saying there’s pressure and scope for freedom (9) 11 Ditch worker for being cutting (9) 12 Arrange debit for something in the bathroom (5) 13 Engineers find last bit, but not wholesale (6) 14 Department head goes straight to gold (8) 16 About to insert concoction into tank (7) 18 Old king replaces German with woman having accent (7) 20 He’s coypu-mad, and a dish (4,4) 22 Bodyguard adjusts score on time (6) 25 Meal doesn’t start to be superior (5) 26 A loud, anti-organisation form of worship (9) 28 Surprise greeting following an explosion (5,4) 29 Borodin’s second follows fast tempo (5)

DOWN

1 Conspiracy to get a piece of ground (4) 2 Purpose on view while camping (6) 3 Give an account of notes to writer (8) 4 Horrify a quiet friend (5) 5 Game creature to leave bank (9) 6 Likely to be responsible by law (6) 7 Touted broadcast about attorney – that’s unfashionable (8) 8 Gambler encountered with new improvement (10) 13 Hurry getting dessert, say, to venue (10) 15 Build Alan a tent before the happy event (9) 17 Deadly creature gives sign at noon (8) 19 Cables to be wrapped around block (8) 21 Oarsman has sudden loss of consciousness (6) 23 Tin ore managed to align (6) 24 Cover of the French medic (5) 27 Element that none used (4)

iSpy winner January 28: Peter May, of Tadley, Hampshire. Last week’s answer: 6