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 British attack a band of cloth (5) 4 Shaming of French significance (9) 9 Celebrated a cold, decimal formula (9) 10 Wrench, by the sound of it, is the reward (5) 11 Yogi’s friend’s blunder (3-3) 12 Recognise a constant solvency (8) 14 Unusual hamlet, men producing cheese (9) 15 Bores about not being drunk (5) 17 Twitch, wearing a French garment (5) 19 Yet another worker is hardly new (5-4) 22 Finished leek off first, then collapse (4,4) 24 Information gets aged and yellow (6) 26 Sane, cooked with one flavouring (5) 27 Curse helps beam construction (9) 28 Cricket team returns throwing pale gem around forms part of the picture (9) 29 Grubby study gets a make-over (5)
Down
1 Walk behind herbalist’s fourth shrub (7) 2 Presenter in charge of mooring? (9) 3 Persist endlessly about old soldier (7) 4 Made alteration for pantomime character (4) 5 I’d claimed a new form of emergency relief (7,3) 6 Same rep worried about some current (7) 7 First person gets laid off for poem (5) 8 Not as small as a kitchen utensil, say (7) 13 Gossip caught fight with milliner (10) 16 Bare-faced animal delaying start? Not so much (9) 17 Steady gun – make it a manoeuvre (4,3) 18 Mislay trophy covering picture (5-2) 20 Doctor, joining work with quiet journalist, is let go (7) 21 Studies cathedral city in a compact way (7) 23 Looking in galley in galleon (5) 25 Will remove front foyer (4)
THE PAGE’S QUICK CLUES
Across
1 Pigtail (5) 4 Humiliating (9) 9 Highly praised (9) 10 Award (5) 11 Mistake (3-3) 12 License (8) 14 Swiss cheese (9) 15 Muted in colour (5) 17 Sleeveless garment (5) 19 Having two previous owners (5-4)
22 Fall down suddenly (4,4) 24 Blonde (6) 26 Flavouring (5) 27 Swear (9) 28 Unit of graphic resolution (9) 29 Unclean (5) Down 1 Prickly shrub (7) 2 Studio presenter (9) 3 Cavalryman (7) 4 Titled woman (4)
5 Health assistance (7,3) 6 Units of current (7) 7 Greek epic poem (5) 8 More considerable (7) 13 Talkative person (10) 16 Clean-shaven (9) 17 Prepare to shoot (4,3) 18 Image from short range (5-2) 20 Let go (7) 21 Thickly (7) 23 Observing (5) 25 Large room (4)
TO ENTER: Complete the Crossword and count how many times the letter ‘i’ appears in the grid. Then text LANCELOT followed by a space, your answer, name and postcode to 65700, eg LANCELOT 9 John Smith W8 5TT. Texts cost £1 plus your standard network rate. To enter by phone, call 0905 652 2140 and leave your answer and details. Calls cost £1 plus your telephone company’s network access charge. Entries will be accepted until 11.59pm on Friday. See below for terms and conditions. Phone and text Helpline 0330 1000 601. iSpy winner January 10: Phil Greaves, of Llandudno, Conwy. Last week’s answer: 12