SIR LANCELOT AND HIS PAGE
PLAY ISPY FOR YOUR CHANCE TO WIN £250!
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 Make a shorter version of a game (7) 5 Soluble protein, say, returning to old tongue (7) 10 The last trifle brought back to island (4) 11 Pulling security number, fixing agent (7,3) 12 Reporters have incorporated a royal (8) 13 Two fivers returned for a cheese ingredient (6) 14 A pie’s changed colour (5) 16 Doubtful epic acts were carried out by student (9) 19 Plug nowadays – it’s ever-changing (9) 21 College with today’s extremes is number one (5) 23 Please move out (6) 25 Scholarly lie about organised treat (8) 27 Thinking award has to go back (10) 28 Chap puts island in the sea (4) 29 Mention points to sporting judge (7) 30 Good husband lost out to unknown supernatural (7)
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2 Beryl, endlessly worried, hides universal part of transaction (5) 3 Concentrated before care in hospital (9) 4 Device is tagged in another way (6) 6 English swine rewrites harp inscription (8) 7 Gas produces a terrible groan (5) 8 Wandering to see nitrate in production (9) 9 Equal to time and distance (6) 15 Visual instrument has done away with range (9) 17 Fool finds us roaming around (9) 18 Blocking wise man getting best parking (8) 20 Picture small pixie, that is (6) 22 Second fish produces an awful smell (6) 24 Chosen the Spanish tie design (5) 26 Case can be a real nuisance (5)
THE PAGE’S QUICK CLUES Across
1 Shorten (7) 5 Setting agent commonly used in sweets (7) 10 River island (4) 11 Metal fastener (7,3) 12 Royal daughter (8) 13 Curdling agent used in the production of cheeses (6) 14 Shade of brown (5) 16 Dubious (9) 19 Publicise (9) 21 Integration (5) 23 Slumbering (6) 25 Able to read (8) 27 Thought (10) 28 Principal (4) 29 Umpire (7) 30 Spectral (7)
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2 Purchaser (5) 3 In-depth (9) 4 Appliance (6) 6 Short quotation (8) 7 Type of gas (5) 8 Wandering (9) 9 Astronomical distance (6) 15 Medical instrument used to examine internal organs (9) 17 Stupid person (9) 18 Discontinuation (8) 20 Mobile phone photograph (6) 22 Stink (6) 24 Exclusive (5) 26 Court case (5)