The Mail on Sunday

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 Arrive with pressure, and left pressure (6)

9 Stop and palm off a lighter (8) 10 Communist later broadcast warning (3,5)

11 New remit has British tone (6) 12 Quiet son volunteers identifica­tion (5)

13 Thin new meadow at the front (4)

14 Don’t eat in a quick way (4) 16 Player going out for extra pay (7) 18 Mad sort, roaming realm (7) 20 Prohibitio­n includes

English food (4)

21 Not far from one arsenal (4) 22 Undergroun­d worker sounds unimportan­t (5)

25 Fights with energy are in short supply (6)

27 Wholly unacceptab­le, correct? (8)

28 Singer has registered with single peer (8) 29 Musical-sounding country (6)

Down

1 Mighty river shelter (6) 2 A parking barrier – no fourth spirit (10)

3 Guides providing things like this (5)

4 Caught last-mentioned rattling sound (7)

5 Pints seem different, but there’s nothing in it (9)

6 Betting in the morning brings unwanted mail (4)

7 Gets second and fourth reporters round for a coffee (8) 14 Farming aid improved sterile fir (10)

15 Turned nasty, the

German journalist (9)

17 Article to revolve around a performer (8)

19 Have fun in vehicle next to river (7)

23 Dilapidate­d chest contains current moral code (6)

24 Small labels on animals (5) 26 Rampage in city junction (4)

THE PAGE’S QUICK CLUES

Across

8 Force (6)

9 Streetligh­t (8)

10 Urgent warning (3,5)

11 Sound quality (6)

12 Sedate (5)

13 Without fat (4)

14 Speedily (4)

16 Footballer (7)

18 Emperor’s territory (7)

20 Pulse (4)

21 Close (4)

22 Collier (5)

25 Thinly scattered (6)

27 Completely (8)

28 Female peer (8)

29 European country (6)

Down

1 Powerful (6)

2 Ghost (10)

3 Pieces of evidence (5)

4 Loud noise (7)

5 Void (9)

6 Unsolicite­d emails (4)

7 Type of coffee (8)

14 Plant food (10)

15 Wandered (9)

17 Actor (8)

19 Make merry (7)

23 Morals (6)

24 Male deer (5)

26 Uproar (4)

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