The Scottish Mail on Sunday

SIR LANCELOT AND HIS PAGE

PLAY ISPY FOR YOUR CHANCE TO WIN £250! WIN £250

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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 Maybe exercise has sharp manoeuvre (7) 5 Might European be an object to dance around? (7) 10 Impatient to see silver go the other way (4) 11 Boldness displayed by fictional spaceship (10) 12 The first right measure of medical treatment (8) 13 Force everyone in charge to be French (6) 14 Cry when table gets broken (5) 16 Ample input fell into decline (9) 19 Pet lovers sadly have risen later than intended (9) 21 Perfect to give audible expression (5) 23 Appear without warning when harvest increased (4,2) 25 Willingnes­s to get laity involved with car design (8) 27 Cap for road users (5,5) 28 Lied about not having any work (4) 29 Try a race with new temp (7) 30 Luring doctor to a part of the house (7)

Down

2 Keen to agree to alter arrangemen­t (5) 3 Drunk, getting caught on musical piece of furniture (4,5) 4 Outline is exact but not finished (6) 6 Overbearin­gly proud of use of tarragon (8) 7 Supernatur­al being left in jeopardy (5) 8 Girl has one duet composed out of laziness (9) 9 An alto performing some modern classical music (6) 15 As it happens, right to notice a sign of age (5,4) 17 Wit ever in trouble at police interrogat­ion (9) 18 Go mad at failure of footwear item (4-4) 20 Type of television that’s in the blood (6) 22 Control stream’s new course (6) 24 Section that is audibly quiet (5) 26 Working a lot with new type of nail (5)

THE PAGE’S QUICK CLUES Across

1 Possibly (7) 5 Post wreathed with streamers (7) 10 Highly impatient (4) 11 Bold project (10) 12 Act of pulling (8) 13 Relating to France (6) 14 Sheep’s cry (5) 16 Abundant (9) 19 Got up too late (9) 21 Say (5) 23 Appear unexpected­ly (4,2) 25 Enthusiasm (8) 27 Driving restrictio­n (5,5) 28 Not in use (4) 29 Have a go (7) 30 Picture made with a pencil (7)

Down

2 Keen (5) 3 Baby’s seat (4,5) 4 Summary (6) 6 Full of unwarrante­d pride (8) 7 Danger (5) 8 State of tiredness (9) 9 Without a key (6) 15 Discoloure­d patch on the skin (5,4) 17 Formal meeting (9) 18 Open shoe (4-4) 20 Blood constituen­t (6) 22 Male teacher, formerly (6) 24 Fragment (5) 26 Hooked claw (5)

TO ENTER: Complete the Crossword and count how many times the letter ‘i’ appears in the grid. Then text LANCELOT followed by a space, your answer, name and postcode to 65700, eg LANCELOT 9 John Smith W8 5TT. Texts cost £1 plus your standard network rate. To enter by phone, call 0905 652 2140 and leave your answer and details. Calls cost £1 plus your telephone company’s network access charge. Entries will be accepted until 11.59pm on Friday. See below for terms and conditions. Phone and text Helpline 0808 272 0808. iSpy winner April 2: Paulette Delaney, of Camborne, Cornwall. Last week’s answer: 8

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