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 9 Argue, not having
caught rider (5)
10 In April, chef worked
at a discount (4-5)
11 Started Edward about
scaffolding worker (9)
12 Sing unknown poem
by student (5)
13 Daisy is confused, hiding
medium concern (6)
14 Bard composed,
crossing into city (8)
16 Concerning equal opportunity
for revenge (7)
18 Not being truthful at home,
and not getting up (5-2)
20 He’s manic about devices (8) 22 Note glue fixed to a whale (6) 25 Tried working when weary (5) 26 Best escape at the
highest level (3-6)
28 Wearing uncool tie,
making speech (9)
29 Woman’s return that
helps you go (5)
Down
1 Be next to a bit of
brass, backwards (4)
2 Hides around European
flocks of geese (6)
3 Perfumed fellow to tease
and shout (8)
4 Horse running by the sea (5)
5 Calculator lured lies out (5,4) 6 Sterilised and sprinkled
– no resistance (6)
7 British rings do change
in dawn chorus (8)
8 Ballad none performed,
because it’s toxic (10)
13 Gloomy affair predicted
by cosmologists (4,6)
15 Feature about tea, if
brewed for leader (9)
17 Brownish-red colour around
a cold biscuit (8)
19 Romantic model first (8)
21 Metal, fashionable – stupid
around university (6)
23 Encouraging rushing
forward, leaderless (6)
24 Second writer with
temperature, exhausted (5) 27 Catch role the wrong
way round (4)
THE PAGE’S QUICK CLUES
Across
9 Motorcyclist (5)
10 At 50% discount (4-5) 11 Initiated (9)
12 Sing, Swiss-style (5) 13 Alarm (6)
14 Yorkshire city (8)
16 Second game (7)
18 Getting up late (5,2) 20 Mechanical
devices (8)
22 Type of whale (6) 25 Exhausted (5)
26 Of the highest
rank (3-6)
28 Pronunciation (9) 29 Cassia tree (5) Down
1 Adjoin (4)
2 Lengths of yarn (6) 3 Aromatic (8)
4 Coastline (5)
5 Calculating
device (5,4) 6 Neutered (6)
7 Avian music (8)
8 Deadly nightshade (10) 13 Non-luminous
material (4,6)
15 Leader (9)
17 Light biscuit (8)
19 Visionary (8)
21 Metallic element (6)
23 Encouraging (6)
24 Used up (5)
27 Snare (4)