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
8 Favourite on 3rd of April – the Spanish bird (6)
9 Reportedly useful limit?
Quite the reverse (8)
10 Spread once, dirt becomes a creed that’s widely taught (8) 11 Article on gold, with unknown speculation (6)
12 Having lots of money to rinse out (5)
13 One writer on time to become another (4)
14 Audibly start a race for a pudding ingredient (4)
16 Artist sends animal outside for some confectionery (7)
18 Fatal manoeuvre round bend by junction is to blame (2,5) 20 Average recipes start with a vegetable (4)
21 Small present reveals wintry conditions (4)
22 Remain, having registered a cat (5) 25 Turned to pink old feature of desktop publishing (6) 27 Enthusiast pursues money – that’s terribly sweet (8)
28 Returned, depressed, and throw in the towel (4,4)
29 Leisurely run in a strange trance (6)
Down
1 Engineers initially counterfeited fuel, getting a kickback (6)
2 Spoilt child is hot stuff in capital (10)
3 Loud student song shows a degree of panache (5)
4 Hose off and fight for very small accommodation (7)
5 Lay the foundations of an organisation (9)
6 I have to follow frequency and number (4)
7 Crazy girl gets scripture lessons in song (8)
14 Fashionable call for a portable device (10)
15 It’s felt to be a great success (9) 17 State has a river leading to another (8)
19 Bowl and shape in sugar paste (7) 23 Wisdom makes a copper join soldiers (6)
24 European daughter cut out husband (5)
26 Prod when card game doesn’t get finished (4)
THE PAGE’S QUICK CLUES
Across
8 Seabird (6) 9 Impediment (8)
10 Set of beliefs (8) 11 Hypothesis (6) 12 Wash out (5)
13 Bard (4)
14 Edible starch (4) 16 Burnt sugar (7) 18 Blameworthy (2,5) 20 Exotic vegetable (4) 21 Frozen precipitation (4)
22 Move away aimlessly (5) 25 Container for writing fluid (6)
27 Small fried cake (8) 28 Withdraw an assertion (4,4) 29 Horse’s gait (6)
Down
1 Draw back (6)
2 Capital of
Slovakia (10) 3 Instinctive aptitude (5)
4 Footwear container (7) 5 Scientific organisation (9) 6 Number (4)
7 Renaissance song (8) 14 Versatile mobile device (10)
15 Feeling (9)
17 US state (8)
19 Type of icing (7) 23 Shrewdness (6) 24 European nationality (5) 26 Jab with a sharp object (4)
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iSpy winner November 24: Ann Haythorne, of Rotherham, South Yorkshire. Last week’s answer: 12