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 Mole wasted empty

day getting air (6)

9 Shirk, making mother hang about (8)

10 Reinfect variety that’s wild (8)

11 Twin giving actors gold (6)

12 Manage and go round (3,2)

13 Frail for a few days, by the sound of it (4)

14 About poem being in secret writing (4)

16 Presiding officer may be a tweeter (7)

18 Salad ingredient hazardous to shipping (7)

20 Poorly staff having time off (4)

21 Plain first couple left in a cosy way (4)

22 Bite top of nails during fire (5)

25 Cited incorrectly, including quiet picture (6)

27 Herb is king – a mythological figure (8)

28 Pet with a top stylist in vault (8)

29 Swear terribly about new reply (6)

Down

1 Qualification, to some extent (6)

2 Indicate safe cartridge at close quarters (5-5)

3 Tokyo transformed into another city (5)

4 Kiss an authoritarian parent (7)

5 Location – fun for a bit of rugby (5,4)

6 Training guns on herd animals (4)

7 He returns with braver exterior, with beauty in his eye (8)

14 Room with elegance is a type of accommodation (5,5)

15 Cut into crude formation (9)

17 Label making pig react badly (5,3)

19 Fabled character – a politician and a graduate (3,4)

23 Money you and I returned to nut (6)

24 Test a shilling, for example (5)

26 Land in terrible rain (4)