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 1 Steal, then cook in water (5) 4 Note every party has something to play with (5,4) 9 Spongy stomach muscles – alternatively crooked (9) 10 Inquisitive about his heart being loud (5) 11 CIA and CID involvement is sharp (6) 12 Encourage explosive finish (8) 14 Threesome taking halt organised new event (9) 15 Spy it changing shape under the influence (5) 17 Peril doesn’t start in rage (5) 19 Earth contains energy and identical ingredient (6,3) 22 Option of engineers joining series of lectures (8) 24 Padre worked with registered dealer (6) 26 One journalist gets doctor in fix (5) 27 Woman joins group as top stylist (5,4) 28 Tried moving head in exhaustion (9) 29 Very small adolescent comes to sticky end (5) Down
1 Yokel is nice, but left out (7) 2 Sailor going by boat, say, then going downhill (9) 3 Instrument player finds it sharp, terribly (7) 4 Reared on baked food, say (4) 5 Sat moaning about extreme dislike (10) 6 Worker ready to find a way to change channels (7) 7 Animated a veil badly (5) 8 Lay toy out, following Liberal allegiance (7) 13 Near thing at the barber’s? (5,5) 16 Arrange shop parking – detest salt (9) 17 Elevator tune starts transportation of supplies (7) 18 Do, under review, become balanced (7) 20 Musical embellishment is extra, having note book (7) 21 Royal university student turned aimlessly, in a sensational manner (7) 23 Log taxi with hesitation (5) 25 Greetings initially sound like an expression of derision (4)
THE PAGE’S QUICK CLUES
Across 1 Cook in boiling water (5) 4 Inflatable seaside item (5,4) 9 Able to soak up liquid (9) 10 Rowdy (5) 11 Sharp-tasting (6) 12 Paint finish (8) 14 Sporting event (9) 15 Slightly drunk (5) 17 Fury (5) 19 Cooking ingredient (6,3) 22 Source of help (8) 24 Dealer in fabrics (6) 26 Fix firmly (5) 27 Women’s hair accessory (5,4) 28 Fatigue (9) 29 Very small (5) Down 1 Historical land worker (7) 2 Descending a rock face (9) 3 Musician (7) 4 Brought up (4) 5 Active hostility (10) 6 Remote control (7) 7 Living (5) 8 Quality of allegiance (7) 13 Narrow escape (5,5) 16 Salt used as a fertiliser (9) 17 Transportation by plane (7) 18 Spherical (7) 20 Musical adornment (7) 21 In a graphic way (7) 23 Trimmed tree trunk (5) 25 Snake’s noise (4)