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 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)