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
1 Fake coach has to go back (5) 4 Goes towards quiche, having early advantage (4,5) 9 Anger back in tragic form of old (9) 10 Very small tail broken off insect (5) 11 A large container, round, pale in colour (6) 12 Vetting organisation, with energy as an illustration (8) 14 Set out shop – tidy, to a point (9) 15 My strange start in game (5) 17 Head of catering rips out a snack (5) 19 Material provided by follower’s family (9) 22 Change, say, nothing to make another personality (5,3) 24 Ages getting queen a way to remove mistakes (6) 26 Time for some music (5) 27 Threesome gets left a snack, but it’s very old (9) 28 Part-sitter is someone to be copied (4,5) 29 In poor condition for race in river (5)
DOWN
1 Important to get prohibited report on a group of musicians (3,4) 2 It’s a sweet thing – and revolutionary (9) 3 River sparkled endlessly around woman (7) 4 Instrument is out of tune, but not initially (4) 5 Old Greek building new side, including this writer (10) 6 Meeting for discussion remains disorganised (7) 7 Check gold key and object (5) 8 Three ran past as a result of that (7) 13 Showing discernment, but needing reading glasses (3-7) 16 Perform move that’s not meant to last (9) 17 Idle talk about milliner (7) 18 Function for every document (7) 20 Pretend to pour nothing out by harbour (7) 21 Room for health worker next to railway (7) 23 The first trouble with Frenchman is the language (5) 25 Flavouring makes daughter sick (4)
THE PAGE’S QUICK CLUES ACROSS
1 Counterfeit (5) 4 Racing advantage (4,5) 9 Relating to old age (9) 10 Minute fly (5) 11 Animal lacking hair pigment (6) 12 Brief account (8) 14 Describe (9) 15 Card game (5) 17 Brittle (5) 19 Warm material (9) 22 Secondary personality (5,3) 24 Rubber (6) 26 Musical speed (5) 27 Marine fossil (9) 28 Person to be imitated (4,5) 29 Shabby (5)
DOWN
1 Dance music group (3,4) 2 Currant biscuit (9) 3 Ireland’s longest river (7) 4 Stringed instrument (4) 5 Greek mathematician (10) 6 Conference (7) 7 Accounts inspection (5) 8 By that means (7) 13 Prudent (3-7) 16 Temporary (9) 17 Gossip (7) 18 Act (7) 20 Claim (7) 21 Baby’s room (7) 23 Asian language (5) 25 Herb (4)
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iSpy winner July 28: Mrs C. Thorpe, of Swadlincote, Derbyshire. Last week’s answer: 11