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 9 Errand of the heart
captured husband (5)
10 Strange union, a dog
and a dinosaur (9)
11 Awful flavour - no recipe
for sport (9)
12 Live healthily, following
start of diet (5)
13 Copper seldom seen
as a poison (6)
14 Starting point for service (8)
16 Doctor sees him as
slow to get angry (7)
18 Colin worried about keys
being short (7)
20 Frozen lump providing storage
for diamonds (3,5)
22 Alternatively, head of chemistry
concealed flower (6)
25 Altogether at home with a
couple of novices (2,3)
26 Cart coins off to get drugs (9) 28 Common, Ravel’s composition,
after college (9)
29 Reach estuary,
taking pains (5)
Down
1 Second taxi is for
a strike-breaker (4)
2 Bird caught donor out (6)
3 Griped about energy,
doubled in descent (8)
4 Tiff broke out by
hospital, in part (5)
5 Adjust list for part of hi-fi (9)
6 Anxious journalist has
gone mad outside (2,4)
7 Gluing notice to shoe
in confusion (8)
8 Guided to decline
fun, sadly (10)
13 Variable island getting
cold promises (10)
15 Yet head shows absence
of movement (9)
17 Chat time, assembled
about a subject (8)
19 Poor Carl turned into
an army man (8)
21 Hat for alien behind tiller (6)
23 Hard, getting rowers
to upper limit (6)
24 Tests solar movement (5)
27 Thus repeatedly
mediocre (2-2)
THE PAGE’S QUICK CLUES
Across
9 Routine task (5)
10 Herbivorous
dinosaur (9)
11 Racket sport (9)
12 Inhabit (5)
13 Resinous poison (6) 14 Tennis court
boundary (8)
16 Long-suffering (7) 18 Terse (7)
20 Floating frozen
mass (3,5) 22 Exotic flower (6) 25 Added
together (2,3)
26 Opiates (9)
28 Ubiquitous (9)
29 Twinges (5) Down
1 Wound’s crust (4) 2 New World
vulture (6)
3 Ancestry (8)
4 20% (5)
5 Record player (9) 6 Tense (2,4)
7 Sticking together (8) 8 Affected (10)
13 Fickle (10)
15 Lack of sound (9)
17 Relating to
a subject (8)
19 Army officer (8)
21 Protective
headgear (6)
23 Stature (6)
24 Verbal exams (5)
27 Average (2-2)