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 Hate sailor – laugh to bitter end (5)

10 Immoral lunatic – he went mad (9)

11 Enjoy a photograph immediately (4,1,4)

12 Leaves the car in green spaces (5)

13 Healthy colour, that is, for a finger (6)

14 Inventive academic has left one in charge (8)

16 The French bishop, unknown in the country (7)

18 Cheat to get a crab (7)

20 One wandered around ancient city with twitch, being highly strung (8)

22 Supporter of fashion gets ready (6)

25 Rushed vehicle round to journalist (5)

26 Comes down with cloak and painting (9)

28 Referred to soldiers on diet, strangely (9)

29 Rinse out some sticky stuff (5)

Down

1 Everyone followed my leader to arcade (4)

2 Poles admitted fish quivered (6)

3 Race into haphazard design (8)

4 Should have purchased missing front (5)

5 Gambler leaving with more money (6,3)

6 Fellow joins the Spanish church (6)

7 Withering, small crop gets flu treatment (8)

8 Showy eccentrics find they help with learning (5,5) 13 Madam is one, sir isn’t (10) 15 I can’t construct sentence in layers of rock (9) 17 Blooming cheque that’s not covered (8)

19 Sorry I’d worked with energy that was minimal (8)

21 Rule old drain out (6) 23 Paragraph useful for a predator, say (6)

24 Mocking end is not right (5) 27 Terribly neat feature of Sicily (4)

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Last week’s answer: 12