The Scottish Mail on Sunday

SIR LANCELOT AND HIS PAGE

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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 New gear included

universal implement (5)

4 European leaving to finish (6,3)

9 Jack, on a roof, can

upset heroine (4,2,3)

10 Memorise renal layout (5)

11 Performed perfectly

when attached (6)

12 Beat confusion about absence

– there’s no milk (5,3)

14 Manage after ordering

steel spyglass (9)

15 Pretty timid after

I had returned (5)

17 Head of broadcasti­ng organised

some cleaner (5)

19 Judge speed behind

a river section (9)

22 Hurried to hit and run (8)

24 Caused affection for

final listener (6)

26 Eager to run off and consent (5) 27 Reptile gets a sugar turned

into a vegetable (9)

28 Blue fashion in decline (9)

29 Small, strangely airy land (5) Down

1 Accompanim­ent found in

road junction (7)

2 Pleased with oil-producing

American flower (9)

3 Delivered rose for

top-level workers (7)

4 Pale sort of ring (4)

5 City pub starts contest for

two of its teams (5,5)

6 Flavoured with lime, initially,

then connected (7)

7 Round section in abstract

movement (2,3)

8 Dream makes follower

stay involved (7)

13 Moving racks alone –

that’s poisonous (5,5)

16 Hunter giving second note

to Thor, possibly (9)

17 Bird making vehicle dart off (7) 18 Dew developed in fog in

part of America (7)

20 Number sure to

adjust terms (7)

21 Use aria about a lot of land (7) 23 Missile creates a

right argument (5)

25 Betting journalist

was rushed (4)

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