SIR LANCELOT AND HIS PAGE

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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 Leave head of divinity to taper off (6) 9 Attendant has been accepting strange rites (8) 10 Happiness is not immoral around fields (8) 11 Fellow CIA criminal is a crazy person (6) 12 We sat around – that’s hard work (5) 13 Period of time in Outer Mongolia (4) 14 Radio broadcasting has right to be boring (4) 16 Journalist noticed something cutting edge (7) 18 A new, different, additional drink (7) 20 Inclined to be thin (4) 21 Destiny revealed in celebration, by the sound of it (4) 22 Knight and king found in beer joint (5) 25 Knock a self-service arrangement (6) 27 Let’s pray, playing an old instrument (8) 28 And the rest is in a dead language (2,6) 29 Suspended for performing form of Buddhism (6)

DOWN

1 Chap declined opera writer’s beginnings (6) 2 Piece of fruit is a cause for embarrassment (6,4) 3 Porter is full of determination (5) 4 Cleaner useful on the pitch (7) 5 Company meant to transform the heavens (9) 6 Naval bird? (4) 7 Rocket constructed at scale by European (8) 14 Notes to people going off (10) 15 Chat more appropriate for a maintenance man (3,6) 17 Nowadays to correspond is perfectly sufficient (8) 19 Unworldly, moving out with quiet Scot (7) 23 Darrel’s off to the store (6) 24 Chief doesn’t finish – that’s a mistake (5) 26 False assortment, not including small insect (4)