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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

1

Chair back makes a wet sound (5)

4 Respite concerning

assignment (9)

9 Axe with strings attached –

it doesn’t exist (3,6)

10 More almonds around field (5)

11 Register for a very large drink (6)

12 Caught in which way mine

turned into an exotic dish (4,4)

14 Working in arcade has

direction and routine (4,5)

15 Training baboon to do

without man (5)

17 Copper maybe getting some

food with the leader (5)

19 Sort meal out with

medium commotion (9)

22 Shouts about men

distributi­ng what’s left (8)

24 Graduate and sailor rock (6)

26 Instruct every team

leader to go first (5)

27 Returning no card to Scot

– that’s harsh (9)

28 Orders yet unsettled

for warship (9)

29 Occasion, we hear, for

some flavouring (5)

Down

1 Small flan with hesitation, then prawn cocktail? (7)

2 Criminal gets table, having to use crane (9)

3 Messy duels to get organised (7)

4 Speed making box lose top (4)

5 Disease unfortunat­ely harms fellow, always (5,5)

6 Rest managed to get married and scattered (7)

7 Picture one game differentl­y (5)

8 Milan struggled to follow negative official (7)

13 With energy, like Popeye? (10)

16 Actually deployed linearity (2,7)

17 Justified ceremony in sea (7)

18 Hide tale about that woman (7)

20 Each recreation around Dover, say (7)

21 Meet in a constructi­on for performanc­e (7)

23 Chap holds zero spades, and grumbles (5)

25 Left atmosphere in den (4)

Across THE PAGE’S QUICK CLUES

1 Chair’s back panel (5)

4 Cancellati­on (9)

9 Musical miming (3,6)

10 Kingdom (5)

11 Threefold (6)

12 Chinese dish (4,4)

14 Precipitat­ion-summoning ritual (4,5)

15 Exercise (5)

17 Type of element (5)

19 Whirlpool (9)

22 Leftovers (8)

24 Type of rock (6)

26 Educate (5)

27 Very strict (9)

28 Type of battleship (9)

29 Herb (5)

Down

1 First course (7)

2 Thief (9)

3 Untidy (7)

4 Speed (4)

5 Malaria (5,5)

6 Scattered (7)

7 Visual representa­tion (5)

8 Titular (7)

13 In a lively manner (10)

16 As a matter of fact (2,7)

17 Deserved (7)

18 Animal hide (7)

20 Coastal town (7)

21 Afternoon performanc­e (7)

23 Complains (5)

25 Burrow (4)

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