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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 9 Ingratiate oneself with swimming style (5) 10 Contract storage area in type of property (9) 11 Yet another scale is shoddy (5-4) 12 Avoid commitment to a boundary (5) 13 Henry’s head seen in terribly sleek coin (6) 14 Note I learnt to play on instrument (8) 16 Terribly banal island next to a country (7) 18 Reliable person gets poorer, sadly, after time (7) 20 Braver to play guitar with current queen (8) 22 Bountiful sign of pregnancy? I’m not sure (6) 25 Part of dress – was it altered? (5) 26 Ten meagre changes to negotiated arrangemen­t (9) 28 Cheerful, finding energy in bullet design (9) 29 Pass one head of chambers a childish complaint (5) Down 1 Cost upsetting a fellow Brit (4) 2 Artist and wine producer gorge (6) 3 Move on acquiring Liberal club (8) 4 Played game, wearing large sparkle (5) 5 Form of broadcasti­ng that is subordinat­e (9) 6 The first there loosened a tie (6) 7 Freezing time limit involves elderly Poles (4,4) 8 Wanderer’s arrival by one river, then another (10) 13 Cleaner quietly rowed about TV series first (4,6) 15 Attentive person who looks after a building (9) 17 Boy starts to turn quiet about small shop (8) 19 Old money gets university student some lavishness (8) 21 Restrict protesters to boiling implement (6) 23 All ape cooked was a rice dish (6) 24 Time woman produced the facts (5) 27 Circuit doesn’t have right approach (4)

The Page’S quick cLueS

Across 9 Swimming style (5) 10 Form of ownership (9) 11 Inferior (5-4) 12 Row of bushes (5) 13 Israeli monetary unit (6) 14 Woodwind instrument (8) 16 European country (7) 18 Private soldier (7) 20 More courageous (8) 22 Car’s safety bar (6) 25 Middle part of the body (5) 26 Harmony (9) 28 Buoyant (9) 29 Abdominal pain (5) Down 1 Northern Briton (4) 2 Canyon (6) 3 Cudgel (8) 4 Glisten (5) 5 Moon, for example (9) 6 Restraint (6) 7 Chilly spell (4,4) 8 Daredevil (10) 13 Washing detergent (4,6) 15 Janitor (9) 17 Clothes shop (8) 19 Wealth (8) 21 Container used to boil liquids (6) 23 Traditiona­l Spanish rice dish (6) 24 Veracity (5) 27 Small nail (4)

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