SIR LANCELOT AND HIS PAGE

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 Places switched, having European structure (5)

4 Terrible sentry, bad

non-participant (9)

9 Demand some drinks and

seek information (3,6)

10 Assesses council tax (5)

11 Inadequate sort of nebula (6)

12 Old official to learn

dam construction (8)

14 Sharp reductions

in sweets (4,5)

15 Favours teams (5)

17 Somehow defer

getting released (5)

19 Nobleman might find

gold – it’s official (4,5)

22 Hank’s oar diverted

old ship (5,3)

24 Treating a cut with

a large current (6)

26 Organised tour around

key royal house (5)

27 Consistently like livery? (9)

28 Shaping wood gives

fish access (9)

29 Quiet socialist has a scrap (5)

Down

1 Bone making USA

clap wildly (7)

2 Go on a walk and

get lost (4,1,4)

3 Home accommodates

part that’s released (7)

4 Cry as fat last threesome left (4)

5 Burden spotted, heard,

felt after riding (6-4)

6 Close to being bald in

the East End (7)

7 Barrier restricts you in France –

that’s a fact (5)

8 Feels indignant regarding

broadcast by son (7)

13 Garment making water

heater fit (6,4)

16 Without alcohol, mathematician

has a torrid time (3,6)

17 In fact, a strange enthusiast (7)

18 Merit fuel around London

area, to a point (7)

20 Measures crimson ensemble (7)

21 Engineers arrange delay

getting transferred (7)

23 Spread lard around

back of the tree (5)

25 It revolved on city

being minute (4)