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 Catherine bringing in artist for kicks (6) 4 Taking the tape out is depressing once director’s left (8) 9 Agreed with Scottish delinquent’s peculiar inclusion (6) 10 Firing one gin into the mix (8) 11 Quick passage from the press (5,6) 15 Ron’s Capri after an accident? (5,4) 17 Basic character of a house in part of the US (5) 18 Restless nine embracing universal feeling of boredom (5) 19 Mess up bonfire? That’s a relief (9) 20 Copy more reasonable nautical device (4,7) 24 Rider tearing up shore on the edge of an isle (8) 25 Tight exit from hectic zone in which heartless zeal is seen (6) 26 Hugo sews repair like a mysterious person (5,3) 27 Weighty measure of a Sixties band (6)

DOWN

1 Bird obtained if gherkins go off (10) 2 Cherry on a fish is something rather misleading (3,7) 3 Sentimental time shown in a social media post (5) 5 Liquid container sorted out as ‘urgent’ on these lorries (11) 6 Extra florid part of the face bearing spilt Tizer (9) 7 I brought boss back a flower (4) 8 It could announce dinner leaving one out (4) 12 Burk that is slipping around hospital cleaning room (7,4) 13 Bit of a sleep before nine initially, or six (4,1,5) 14 Informers’ ranks internally have credit (4,6) 16 Power down taking in basic food of enormous value (9) 21 About turn for enemy vessel (1-4) 22 Old politician is hot in what a judge wears (4) 23 Charge is about right being no charge at all (4)