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SIR LANCELOT AND HIS PAGE £250

PLAY ISPY FOR YOUR CHANCE TO WIN £250!

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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

9 The French greeting

gives permission (5)

10 List audible complaint –

it’s nothing special (5,4)

11 Meet corgi, moving using

straight lines (9)

12 Initially concerned with

terribly rare helper (5)

13 Compulsion to turn

gown out (6)

14 Twist any tail around

– that’s logical (8)

16 Thief shifted rug to

left in pub (7)

18 Trap too devious for

undergroun­d section (7)

20 Lone dose ordered – it

needs tying up (5,3)

22 Bragged about having

used oars (6)

25 Mark left diet out (5)

26 Sent up light ode

on bananas (9)

28 Offer is expected

first to soften (9)

29 Extra pound gets

a mushroom (5)

Down

1 Sell whip (4)

2 Misshapen oval city

shows courage (6)

3 Cleric engineered

laser setback (8)

4 Greatest artisan has

a beginning (5)

5 Former pupil sent icy order

as an expletive (9)

6 Writer reviewed clip

about space (6)

7 Blotter used with one

set of words (8)

8 Disapprove­d of French deer

pact getting broken (10)

13 Hinder diet, albeit badly (10)

15 Sang with flair about

confusion of tongues (9)

17 Rein fool’s design for

top of building (8)

19 Equal to mad demon?

I’m sorry? (6,2)

21 Old tree transporte­d

to city (6)

23 Gain sample that’s frosty (6)

24 Force rascal to

join the Spanish (5)

27 Durham’s first university

students are tedious (4)

THE PAGE’S QUICK CLUES Across

9 Depart (5)

10 Average quality

drink (5,4)

11 Of lines and

shapes (9)

12 Full-time minder (5)

13 Coercion (6)

14 Scientific (8)

16 Robber (7)

18 Plant’s main

undergroun­d part (7) 20 Detail not

settled (5,3)

22 Boasted (6)

25 Spanish accent (5)

26 Satirised (9)

28 Soften (9)

29 Edible fungus (5)

Down

1 Whip (4)

2 Bravery (6)

3 Turnaround (8)

4 Begin (5) 5 Swear word (9)

6 Writing implement (6)

7 Opera’s words (8)

8 Abhorred (10)

13 Weaken (10)

15 Language blend (9)

17 Vehicle’s top design (8)

19 ‘I apologise’ (6,2)

21 English city (6)

23 Cold (6)

24 Force (5)

27 Boring (4)

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