SIR LANCELOT AND HIS PAGE

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SIR LANCELOT’S

CRYPTIC CLUES Across

1 Elegy involved pipe

and hat (7)

5 Second spouses

taking large turns (7)

10 Pub next to new

outbuilding (4)

11 Blast eccentric

educational rating (6,4)

12 Natter aimlessly about

each animal (8)

13 Getting up and gambling,

losing heart (6)

14 Sharp, getting a group of

detectives right inside (5)

16 Brevity so different

to garrulity (9)

19 Preview is terrible for estate (9)

21 Hammer donated to

head of library (5)

23 Sayings nowadays taking

a long time (6)

25 Artist tries going mad about

current collector’s items (8)

27 Lawmen having entertaining time

with river parasites (4,6)

28 Damn vermin (4)

29 Engineers on location

taking quiet break (7)

30 I’d relay broadcast

without hesitation (7)

Down

2 Piece gets registered

as seafood (5)

3 Entering a different shade (9)

4 Pressure on furious

buccaneer (6)

6 Drawback finding dress

in cupboard (8)

7 Apprentices losing

no bad habits (5)

8 Changing to gentler glasses (9)

9 Fights with energy being

in short supply (6)

15 Confuse number getting

happy feeling (5,4)

17 Rest acted strangely

and broke up (9)

18 Permit to go by on the left (8)

20 Hot but free behind hill (6)

22 Don’t move a horizontal bit of

decoration, by the sound of it (6)

24 Clothes in place, say,

the other way round (3-2)

26 Praise former spouse,

bringing lot back (5)

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iSpy winner November 27: Glenice Owens, of Bicton, Devon. iSpy winner December 4: Ronald Plant, of Edinburgh, Midlothian. Last week’s answer: 15