SiR lANcElOt’S cRyptic clUES

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.

Across 1 Toy has right to be amusing (5) 4 Drop a toll devised to make the most money (3,6) Take own cocktail to party 10 9 in self-defence (3,4,2) Saw tonne being transported (5) 11 Passion makes artist turn unfriendly (6) 12 Jumper shows rook flying round a nag, running (8) 14 Trio with a tart cooked in restaurant (9) 15 Material obtained from many Londoners (5) 17 Flower at the back loses last bit (5) 19 Trade was affected, having nothing to drink (4,5) 22 Boy catches insect a little bit (8) 24 Unfinished dress encloses First Lady, one in frisk (6) 26 Everyone turned to issue (5) 27 Lifelike articles rewritten about first person (9) 28 Keep novel beginning in city (9) 29 Germany’s premier beer intoxicated bird (5) Down 1 Take away keys to some land (7) 2 Finished sketch for deficit in account (9) 3 Case for judge’s outfit (7) 4 Fuel storage for vehicle (4) 5 Reportedly support a goose in dubious publicity (10) 6 Old couple start tango off to get in shape (7) 7 Somehow enrol a hermit (5) 8 Summary in a poor state (3-4) 13 Peer wildly – it’s a carrot (10) 16 The French have changed title to a digit (6,3) 17 Mark follows sailor in refrain (7) 18 Great at organising an event (7) 20 Threat of danger is weakening without scholar’s conclusion (7) 21 Engineers get bike to convert into something new (7) 23 Relative left a wife at home, originally (2-3) 25 About to copy a sleeveless garment (4)