SIR LANCELOT’S CRYPTIC CLUES

Across

1 Youngster points to shapes (5)

4 Order missed – oil is not very hard (9)

9 Descendants took university students as servants (9)

10 Entertain a source of inspiration (5)

11 One minute alliance in strike (6)

12 Reserve example in storage facility (8)

14 Socialist had organised sortie and had fun (9)

15 Suspicion spread, but after party (5)

17 Put upper-class conservative back, upset (3-2)

19 Pet device turned out to be illusory (9)

22 Send work back to Newcastle area in delay (8)

24 Boyfriend goes round ancient city office (6)

26 The first turn as an online menace (5)

27 I am rather deficient, but awestruck (9)

28 Afterwards taking friend to one side (9)

29 Orals set about a star (5)

Down

1 Dismiss a bank clerk (7)

2 Depressed, run off – that’s the plan (9)

3 Request is, to a great extent, permissible (7)

4 Second record is hard work (4)

5 Frenchman is to control wrongdoing (10)

6 Top of sideboard gets nailed and put in a queue (7)

7 Woman left artist holding gold (5)

8 Least shallow river has vermin (7)

13 Qualification is interlaced in a complex way (10)

16 Common, Ravel’s composition, after college (9)

17 Senate building has money, by the sound of it (7)

18 Liked living in extremity, having turned up (7)

20 Universal personal documents about beggars (7)

21 European copper on wrong road to the country (7)

23 Small container has unusual front lip (5)

25 Lively mole grabs badger’s tail (4)

THE PAGE’S QUICK CLUES Across

1 Dices (5)

4 Highly viscous (9)

9 Kitchen servants (9)

10 Regale (5)

11 Collision (6)

12 Storage unit (8)

14 Caroused (9)

15 Disbelief (5)

17 Distressed (3-2)

19 Misleading (9)

22 Delay (8)

24 Office (6)

26 Mythical being (5)

27 Feeling admiration (9)

28 Sideways (9)

29 Of the sun (5)

Down

1 Bank employee (7)

2 Design (9)

3 Request (7)

4 Work hard (4)

5 Bad behaviour (10)

6 Heaped (7)

7 Woman’s name (5)

8 Most profound (7)

13 Achievement (10)

16 Ubiquitous (9)

17 US Congress building (7)

18 Well-liked (7)

20 Destitute people (7)

21 S American country (7)

23 Nozzle (5)

25 Energetic (4)