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
8 Energetic person may nod frantically (6)
9 Simple worker included a vegetable (8)
10 Criminal proposal gets result (8)
11 Woman gets father’s terrain (6)
12 Prevent access to apartment building (5)
13 A victory on a river (4)
14 Reportedly tolerate nude (4)
16 Willing student joins a new orchestra (7)
18 Burden – pressure, initially – on workman (7)
20 Owing small fees (4)
21 Excessively kind, leader accepted (4)
22 Scandinavian has cold routine (5)
25 Hell, following start of script in sunglasses (6)
27 One fated, sadly, to be unable to sing (4-4)
28 Scratch an isobar out (8)
29 Number starts to expand, largely divisible by two (6)
Down
1 Vision makes the old turn fuel off (6)
2 Spread secrets –
raw ingredient (10)
3 Thor desperate to include crowd (5)
4 Support a quiet show (7)
5 About Paul, a man, changing a flower (9)
6 His temper has to stop (4)
7 Daughter is eager, running round to oppose (8)
14 Explosive raider turned out to be an officer (10)
15 Great to see follower cast it out (9)
17 Capital making a friend laugh with endless offer (3,5)
19 Pastime, working at bingo (7)
23 Catholic hears about another drink (6)
24 Start playing notes (5)
26 It delivers beer, right in time (4)
THE PAGE’S QUICK CLUES
Across
8 Generator (6)
9 Type of banana (8)
10 Wrongdoer (8)
11 S American plains (6)
12 Obstruct (5)
13 English river (4)
14 Naked (4)
16 Percussion orchestra (7)
18 Domestic workman (7) 20 Subscription fees (4)
21 Stole (4)
22 Art form (5)
25 Obscures (6)
27 Non-musical (4-4)
28 Scratch (8)
29 Number (6)
Down
1 Beautiful sight (6)
2 Salad plant (10)
3 Large group (5)
4 Endorse (7)
5 Bell-shaped flower (9)
6 Stalk (4)
7 Contradict (8)
14 Army officer (10)
15 Wonderful (9)
17 UAE capital (3,5)
19 Aquatic recreation (7)
23 Second drink (6)
24 Beginning (5)
26 Beer cart (4)