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
8 Sheep in more trouble (6)
9 Partial to current monarch
running around (8)
10 Was there when
a race finished (8)
11 Clothing fades behind
French article (6)
12 Judge caught first in box (5)
13 No westerner outside
is obliged (4)
14 Old-fashioned, missing
last appointment (4)
16 Almost tolerating
a replacement (5-2)
18 Critics adjusted score, adding two points (7)
20 Water gives city a form of energy (4)
21 One’s irregular feature (4) 22 Original rifts given new form (5) 25 Work with ticket seller, then decide not to (3,3)
27 Quote Len, terribly articulate (8) 28 Force Frenchmen
to enter trade (8)
29 Sharply criticise king
found in drain (6)
Down
1 Dog in the evening sun (6)
2 Dabbler is talented,
it turned out (10)
3 Crawler today is in disarray (5) 4 Dark and ostentatious, nowadays, inside (7)
5 Dodgy dealer trades fur in a dodgy way (9)
6 Fellow, about daughter, is devoted (4)
7 Film-maker ordered cider by hill (8)
14 Sid, sadly, reckoned
on being spoilt (10)
15 Try aiding arrangement
for VIP (9)
17 Measure neaps too randomly (8)
19 Led you and me to that woman’s journalist (7)
23 Chap returned and committed an offence (6) 24 Lawmen sit around top of stairs (5)
26 Resistance units working for the queen (4)
THE PAGE’S QUICK CLUES Across
8 Breed of sheep (6)
9 Overtone (8)
10 Was present (8)
11 Articles of clothing (6) 12 Packing case (5)
13 Is indebted to (4)
14 Day of the month (4) 16 Substitute (5-2)
18 Suppressing examiners (7)
20 Body of water (4)
21 Facial feature (4)
22 Initial (5)
25 Choose not to participate (3,3) 27 Persuasive (8)
28 Business (8)
29 Cooking rod (6)
Down
1 Breed of dog (6) 2 Amateur (10)
3 Sycophant (5)
4 Indistinct (7)
5 Criminal (9)
6 Adoring (4)
7 Producer (8)
14 Defaced (10)
15 Important person (9)
17 Cutlery item (8)
19 Guided (7)
23 Transgressed (6)
24 Sheriff’s men (5)
26 Units of resistance (4)