SIR LANCELOT’S CRYPTIC CLUES
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.
Across
8 Writer returned – he worried first relative (6)
9 Share a pound, being sensible (8)
10 Pledge ice, dated another way (8)
11 Snatch sailor next to Channel (6)
12 Dodgy psychology about nomad (5)
13 Cow is educated outside, intelligent (4)
14 European staff (4)
16 A cup seen to shrivel (7)
18 Hums bit about an element (7)
20 Vermin I am returning to church (4)
21 Gather in more
apples (4)
22 Better edges possess colour (5)
25 Oppose article (6)
27 Altering form and shape (8)
28 Plot transportation of canes to city (8)
29 Guernsey’s first composer shows grit (6) Down
1 Get upset about Lee’s wrong ingredient (6)
2 Use lighter continuously, ruining Mike’s nacho (5-5)
3 We sat around – that’s hard work (5)
4 Poison involved
in scare (7)
5 Planned set – tragic performance (9)
6 Spy’s pledge (4)
7 Knight getting clean away a great deal (8)
14 Mania prone to upset dog (10)
15 Drink to expression, but not for long (5-4)
17 Follow support for jam (8)
19 Limit changed into wording (7)
23 Everything inside damp container (6)
24 Calls for some jewellery (5)
26 One’s worked for a long time (4)
THE PAGE’S QUICK CLUES
Across
8 Male relative (6)
9 Sane (8)
10 Devote (8)
11 Kidnap (6)
12 Nomadic person (5)
13 Sagacious (4)
14 Post (4)
16 Waste away (7)
18 Metallic element (7)
20 Rodents (4)
21 Gather (4)
22 Colour (5)
25 Item (6)
27 Geometric shape (8)
28 Storyline (8)
29 Shingle (6)
Down
1 Salad plant (6)
2 Light up continuously (5-5)
3 Perspire (5)
4 Poisonous element (7)
5 Calculated (9)
6 Friendship (4)
7 Arthurian knight (8)
14 Breed of dog (10)
15 Of brief duration (5-4)
17 Traffic queue (8)
19 Title (7)
23 Folding case (6)
24 Hoops (5)
26 Time periods (4)