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 Refusal to study one

with a student (6)

9 Spanish entertainer to

lecture on gold (8)

10 Call vice about a bone (8)

11 Leave directions

with aristocrat (3,3)

12 This improved, wearing

right garment (5)

13 Setback makes

bishop depressed (4)

14 Insect and cat returned

with horse (4)

16 Spreading bile after a month,

making some noise (7)

18 Distraught fellow managed

to get twitch (7)

20 Married expert produces

old weapon (4)

21 Implement for removing

front of seat (4)

22 Chronometer in view (5)

25 Restrain flies flying

around the top (6)

27 Prisoner penalised

and held (8)

28 Internal attention used

to achieve balance (5,3)

29 Jump in quiet,

sudden movement (6)

Down

1 Left in moorland to

acquire fitness (6)

2 Some beef for

second-place team (10)

3 Cut succeeded with

large diamonds (5)

4 Terribly sleepy, taking

junction at a sharp angle (7)

5 Encounter effort in

artist’s style (9)

6 Last order for a sailor (4)

7 Cite font crumbling that comes

down on married couple (8)

14 Lying cad returns, following

soldiers with promises (10)

15 Lived through storm,

say, with journalist (9)

17 Old drama is tough (8)

19 Firm new thread

in agreement (7)

23 Obvious, without a chap

losing heart to priests (6)

24 Son dozes in breaks (5)

26 Loud swimmer’s stroke (4)

iSpy winner July 3: Kiran Parry, of Aberdare, Rhondda Cynon Taf. Last week’s answer: 10