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 Explosive wire to tie off (7) 5 What’s left shows an even distribution (7) 10 Soldiers accept one person’s appearance (4) 11 Buy at the butcher’s and receive notice (3,3,4) 12 Spread a prim lie about not being metric (8) 13 Libertine gets alien to shoot again (6) 14 Deadly sin swallowing old messenger (5) 16 Nice point about establishment (9) 19 Tree bear catches horse – that’s immediate (5-4) 21 Poor chap gets left and right confused (5) 23 At university, clamour for chaos (6) 25 A French wife lies about year in an ill-advised way (8) 27 Worker paid one off from the other side of the world (10) 28 The shape of cricket in London? (4) 29 One includes hard beach material (7) 30 Sound excited about last locket (7)
Down
2 Old Greek character with hesitation makes narcotic (5) 3 Threatening to transport garden round America (9) 4 Feline is wasting energy in river (6) 6 Hated sailor reporting stock (8) 7 Meeting to design coats (5) 8 See function in mechanism (9) 9 Mark takes Lenin initially to be a Russian ruler (6) 15 Tool is nothing with a drink (4,5) 17 Informed about husband using hers in beginning (9) 18 Cleaner joins firm with a large drawing (8) 20 Sodium to deploy on a sickness (6) 22 Sibling, say, back in pain (6) 24 Tearjerker set in the kitchen? (5) 26 Memorise renal layout (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 0330 1000 601. iSpy winner November 11: Audrey Lawton, of Newcastle, Tyne and Wear. Last week’s answer: 11