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 Go bead-crazy and shop abroad (6) 9 Cross the room – that was easy (8) 10 More forceful way religious man has gone off (8) 11 Plug and advertise about country (6) 12 Exclaim vague shape is next to junction (5) 13 Avoid star hugging husband (4) 14 Lip starts to be repulsive in moustache (4) 16 Stop woman with European spirit (7) 18 An aster-shaped star (7) 20 One’s worked for a long time (4) 21 Distinguish from constellation (4) 22 Pressure on every fruit (5) 25 Notice article and be furious (6) 27 Limits one copper to medium pepper (8) 28 School play for sophisticated person (5,3) 29 Hag sat around, shocked (6)

Down

1 Work backwards on last arrangement of letters (6) 2 Part of garden that presents no difficulty (3,2,5) 3 Graduate no good with a form of animation (5) 4 Dark influence engulfs Ruth, rejecting university (7) 5 Confuse number getting happy feeling (5,4) 6 Unknown in the past – twisted philosophy (4) 7 Time limit for lifeless sentence (8) 14 Reportedly smash flimsy part of car (5,5) 15 Noble fellow composed lament, following information (9) 17 Firstly, superior to everyone (5,3) 19 Calm about award going round (7) 23 Sea journey for ships’ companies, by the sound of it (6) 24 A large software programme starts to horrify (5) 26 Cricket match can be a trial (4)