The Scottish Mail on Sunday

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 Routed differentl­y for another way round (6) 9 Stop and palm off a lighter (8) 10 Impose limits on engineers – harsh (8) 11 Wear a new cross after secretion (6) 12 Look closely at workroom (5) 13 Blessed with not as much? (4) 14 Second time, get a flavouring (4) 16 Separate small youngster getting illuminate­d (5,2) 18 Also terribly neat tempo (7) 20 Whole, say, or just a part of it (4) 21 Duck in white alabaster (4) 22 Schools initially manage, to an extent (5) 25 Room for church to reverse, all right! (6) 27 Harold gets loud on occasion in interval (4-4) 28 I would return and look to acquire new rebate (8) 29 Woodlouse, say, is too much after work (6)

Down

1 Achievemen­t of French starting beat (6) 2 Dorothy and Edward get sentence and somewhere to sign (6,4) 3 Note bad conditions for thinker (5) 4 Fool, he has produced something worn (7) 5 Spared man, deployed sign (9) 6 His purpose includes an incentive (4) 7 Races off and obtained a delicacy (8) 14 Keep generating action, no plane involved (10) 15 Squash British voice enthusiast (9) 17 Call twitch as it sounds (8) 19 Cheat me out of a knife (7) 23 Brit down under twice gets decoration (3-3) 24 Quietly put down tartan (5) 26 Opportunit­y for courage when leaderless (4)

THE PAGE’S QUICK CLUES

Across

8 Deviation (6) 9 Streetligh­t (8) 10 Confine (8) 11 Otic secretion (6) 12 Learning (5) 13 Not as much (4) 14 Herb (4) 16 Separate (5,2) 18 Moderately slow tempo (7) 20 Unspecifie­d amount of (4) 21 Type of duck (4) 22 Range (5) 25 Undergroun­d room (6) 27 Football intermissi­on (4-4) 28 Price reduction (8) 29 Type of crustacean (6)

Down

1 Conquer (6) 2 Space for signature (6,4) 3 Thinking organ (5) 4 Attire (7) 5 & sign (9) 6 Mountain projection (4) 7 Edible snail (8) 14 Holiday, not abroad (10) 15 Type of squash (9) 17 Relating to speech sounds (8) 19 Broad, heavy knife (7) 23 Decorative woollen ball (3-3) 24 Tartan (5) 26 Fortune (4)

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