SIR LANCELOT AND HIS PAGE

SIR LANCELOT’S CRYPTIC CLUES

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 week.

ACROSS

1 Cargo about to be removed in brawl (5) 4 Time at home with head of garlic and salt and pepper (9) 9 Heaps about endless instruction without form (9) 10 Muscle and bravado initially overturning new conflict (5) 11 Fashionable portal, but not outside (6) 12 Art games played by VIP (8) 14 Mother and boy forming trio? Awkward (9) 15 Peg left after party – you and I followed (5) 17 Iron and rum mixture finds a supporter (5) 19 Small firm under review by Liberal rascal (9) 22 Novel about Rome upset trainee (8) 24 Creature found within a group (6) 26 Finish taking in city animal (5) 27 Mostly fruit with a nut recipe for an ape (9) 28 Speculated hot desire was involved (9) 29 Obsessive city has turned red (5)

DOWN

1 Note scam is shambolic dictatorship (7) 2 Wonderful to criticise a big tournament (5,4) 3 Informed about old fellow returning in promising start (7) 4 Agonise for a while over a dish (4) 5 Obtain nest, unusually sitting on the fence (10) 6 Working with a team while sailing (2,5) 7 Inappropriate sort of paint (5) 8 Officer is concerned with most things (7) 13 Noisy and bossier, out-manoeuvred (10) 16 Boast, turning steer out in cathedral (9) 17 Follower gets clout from part of the engine (3,4) 18 Give new arrangement for instrument without a particular note (7) 20 Midday to get horse into shape (7) 21 Quantity in clay formation shows delay (7) 23 Change lanes, signal with energy (5) 25 Both arduous and difficult inside (4)