SIR LANCELOT AND HIS PAGE

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 Maintain seafood around island (5) 10 Thieves find what’s left, after a drink (3,6) 11 Get round to eating bananas to acquire energy (9) 12 Small part of a snow leopard (5) 13 Gentleman carried tray round for constant sufferer (6) 14 Their awful jokes are eccentric (8) 16 Doorman has month to compose trio (7) 18 Different traits to European performer (7) 20 Engineers join coach, not registered for advance fee (8) 22 Stratagem has force and scope (6) 25 Hour wasted by Devon’s last lake (5) 26 Party time includes fashionable dancer (9) 28 Moved, about to get paid (9) 29 Recording puts Uruguay in shade (5)

DOWN

1 Have a look for small tin (4) 2 Sausage in British range getting cooked (6) 3 Teams played without your old stone (8) 4 Heard sum of money wagered is cut (5) 5 Confront the best type of cosmetic (4,5) 6 Brave choir travelling around Spain (6) 7 A victory by Greens upset Thor’s mates (8) 8 Fools broadcast, getting medium rating (10) 13 Important part of the interval (5,5) 15 New fighter for contentious building site (5,4) 17 Revealing person performing a turn first (8) 19 Attempt to hide some underwear distortion (8) 21 Natural for tavern to serve tea (6) 23 Tribe wandering outside university city (6) 24 Publicly decide to protect river (5) 27 Mean to change the last word (4)