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 Kitty has time for soup (6) 9 Expert has strange date with river crocodile, say (8) 10 Countryman bags his first bird (8) 11 Not much money for a leather-worker (6) 12 Sound in estuary is heard (5) 13 Charge put on time and distance (4) 14 Betting on a new bridge (4) 16 Arrogant when getting robbed (5-2) 18 Praise answer from some French, behind schedule (7) 20 Expensive-sounding animal (4) 21 Continuing like this before long (4) 22 Second colour shows period of time (5) 25 Actor gets a composition right (6) 27 Lack flavouring – Thor cooked interior (8) 28 Until abs somehow generate capital (8) 29 Romeo following around plant (6)

Down

1 Trouble relative – no right (6) 2 Mark pursues crazy range on island (10) 3 Go off notes in twenty-four hours (5) 4 Irrational article contained in alien name (7) 5 Cute, tried out virtue (9) 6 Spirit admits a profit (4) 7 Witches and worker reach agreement (8) 14 A left turn inside terminus to find address (10) 15 Agree with writer after bus goes back (9) 17 A sitter worked on English essay (8) 19 Provide comfort at desk (7) 23 Deployed gun to obtain a little bit (6) 24 Foyer initially protecting gold church (5) 26 Seize old king and sailor (4)