SIR LANCELOT AND HIS PAGE

SIR LANCELOT’S CRYPTIC CLUES

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.

Across

9 Starts to regret opening up

garage – extremely cosmetic (5)

10 Item around stream

is action-packed (9)

11 Pottery trade flew out (9)

12 Informed after cat managed

to behave badly (3,2)

13 Racing driver finds badge

in America (6)

14 Amaze, having new rate set

by the government (5-3)

16 Distressed, like a guitar neck? (7)

18 Heard first person left has

strange facial feature (7)

20 Remembered visit in grass (8)

22 Zodiac symbol seen

around fish (6)

25 Aspirations in shop,

especially (5)

26 Old pimento recipe

provides immunity (9)

28 It’s senna, used on small

unpleasantness (9)

29 Drains top off pitchers (5)

Down

1 Network gets guerrilla

leader free (4)

2 Dead centre with

alien projectile (6)

3 Non-vegetarian fare

for singer (4,4)

4 Remain, having

registered a cat (5)

5 Ulcer treatment with connections

to savage behaviour (9)

6 Docile, putting his heart

into factory (6)

7 Student is terribly irate,

having food poisoning (8)

8 Silver on a pot,

like this flower (10)

13 Forbade hen production

previously (10)

15 See depressed fellow flag (4,5)

17 Fabricating mass

epic fantasy (8)

19 Make unintelligible note

in perch, drunk (8)

21 Behold wrecked site

and go mad (4,2)

23 Role-playing, getting

object to linger (6)

24 Untidy officers’ room?

Unknown (5)

27 Boy brought up

hospital food (4)