SIR LANCELOT AND HIS PAGE
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 1 Cover by the French medic (5)
4 Returned with drink
in quiet place (9)
9 Singer has fun with an animal (9) 10 I am illuminated
about boundary (5)
11 Surplus sulphur
inside is scanty (6)
12 Also managed to include
gold that’s European (8)
14 Most sentimental doctor
tips pie out (9)
15 Elbow, bare, taking force (5)
17 Once ordered small
ice creams (5)
19 Study one’s comic carelessly (9) 22 Father’s attempts
at baked food (8)
24 Expressive author with twitch (6) 26 Coach in art management (5)
27 Wear casual clothes,
getting reprimand (5,4)
28 Convenience, joining
fellow libertine (6,3)
29 Some worried about daughter
having manners (5)
Down
1 Demeaned graduates indeed (7) 2 Estimate upsetting
Aunt Viola (9)
3 Shreds new design
for pasture (5,2)
4 Flyer right to have a drink (4)
5 Firm resistance to old
people in ceremony (10)
6 Obstacle, having nothing
on tongue (7)
7 Medium riot broke out
around island (5)
8 Advisers keep losing
a university key (7)
13 Vote and mention conclusion
with hesitation (10)
16 Stray club found on beach (9)
17 Money is wonderful (7)
18 Grant’s confused, finding
English peculiar (7)
20 Marsupial is round,
churning moss up (7)
21 Not long for attendants (7)
23 Skyscraper society
finds difficult (5)
25 Thin new meadow at the front (4)
the Page’S quick cLueS
Across 1 Soft quilt (5)
4 Isolated place (9)
9 Singer (9)
10 Scope (5)
11 In short supply (6)
12 European (8)
14 Most ineffectual (9)
15 Prod (5)
17 Geometric shapes (5) 19 Study of wealth (9)
22 Tarts (8) 24 Figurative (6)
26 Instruct (5)
27 Slob around (5,4)
28 Male flirt (6,3)
29 Functions (5)
Down
1 Corrupted (7)
2 Assessment (9)
3 Pulls to
pieces (5,2)
4 Alcoholic drink (4)
5 Royal ceremony (10) 6 Belgian French (7)
7 Asian island (5)
8 Entourage (7)
13 Popular vote (10)
16 Timber washed
ashore (9)
17 Chief city (7)
18 Odd (7)
20 American marsupial (7) 21 Periods of time (7)
23 Fragment (5)
25 Without fat (4)