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
8 Cited incorrectly, including
quiet picture (6)
9 Afterwards returning about
objection and refutation (8)
10 Cold beer ordered right next to
American guard dog (8)
11 Provide in a lithe way? (6)
12 Good time to have registered
as a cleaner (5)
13 Cut article removed
from county (4)
14 Altering time is such
a small thing (4)
16 Explosive military leader (7)
18 Number incorporated
organised duel (7)
20 Search, without catholic
getting resentful (4)
21 Sketch a tie (4)
22 Fund energy, down,
out of sorts (5)
25 Hot fruit loaf left out (6)
27 Cultivate and deliver
a worker (8)
28 Cottage design has
one think (8)
29 Remove from French permit,
to a point (6)
Down
1 More about taking alien
to be a distant visitor (6)
2 Older, relative to
controlling influence (3,7)
3 Broadcast most, having
registered furore (5)
4 Total obliteration of an
80s pop act (7)
5 Degradation in a cellar (9)
6 Phase pets out (4)
7 After party, old man
asked to vote (8)
14 A cello hymn
produced sadness (10)
15 Italian to fish, almost,
with Scot (9)
17 Assuming nowadays
there’s a choice (8)
19 Offers, as a prize, a
gentleman thief (7)
23 Decorated – alternatively,
terribly neat (6)
24 Angry speech, having
lost current business (5)
26 Help after front of load
is put down (4)
THE PAGE’S QUICK CLUES
Across 8 Portray (6)
9 Denial (8)
10 Hound of
Hades (8)
11 Stock (6)
12 Besom (5)
13 Fit (4)
14 Tiny arachnid (4)
16 Explosive part
of missile (7)
18 Encompass (7)
20 Bitter (4)
21 Sketch (4)
22 Bequeath (5)
25 Taken
unlawfully (6)
27 Agricultural
worker (8)
28 Contemplate (8)
29 Cross out (6) Down
1 Shooting star (6)
2 Controlling
organisation (3,7)
3 Tempest (5)
4 Complete
removal (7)
5 Humiliation (9)
6 Stair (4)
7 Asked to
vote secretly (8)
14 Gloom (10)
15 Italian islander (9)
17 Acquisition (8)
19 Tombolas (7)
23 Elaborate (6)
24 Deal (5)
26 Put down (4)