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 Firm present has to stick (6) 9 Instrument for queen put behind log (8) 10 Prisoner sees a piece of land get smaller (8) 11 Turn to prime order from judge (6) 12 Indifferent to pressure in new form of diet (5) 13 Audibly perceived a few cows (4) 14 Action that may be reversed (4) 16 Record space for something white (7) 18 Dapper sister has to keep going (7) 20 Event organised for the people (4) 21 Temperature that may be caught (4) 22 Journalist pursued Reg out of voracity (5) 25 Quiet laugh about Japanese bow producing fear (6) 27 Unwillingly admit notes have turned rugged (8) 28 Crime not carried out on phone system (8) 29 At home, healthy to use oxygen (6)
DOWN
1 Elk has right to be acting sullenly (6) 2 It turns to money to figure out (10) 3 Time to have the Spanish put off (5) 4 Squander something that’s deep-fried (7) 5 Villain to run closed operation (9) 6 Cut in farm produce (4) 7 Loud listener, not quite as brave (8) 14 Some beer has first to be agitated (10) 15 Possibly for every bit of luck (9) 17 Behold an item of hatred (8) 19 A city gets two graduates in a state (7) 23 Overcome pixie with strange gun (6) 24 Another time to make a profit (5) 26 Make beer of calibre work (4)
THE PAGE’S QUICK CLUES aCross
8 Stick together (6) 9 Wind instrument (8) 10 Lease (8) 11 Sporting referee (6) 12 Lukewarm (5) 13 Group of cattle (4) 14 Document (4) 16 Egg white (7) 18 Continue obstinately (7) 20 Timed contest (4) 21 Chilly (4) 22 Avarice (5) 25 Dread (6) 27 Resent (8) 28 Telephone system (8) 29 Breathe in (6)
DOWN
1 Sullen (6) 2 Rotating machine (10) 3 Postpone (5) 4 Waste (7) 5 Rogue (9) 6 Cultivated plant produce (4) 7 Courageous (8) 14 Frantic (10) 15 Perhaps (9) 17 Fierce hatred (8) 19 Southern US state (7) 23 Overwhelm (6) 24 Once more (5) 26 Make tea (4)