SIR LANCELOT AND HIS PAGE 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

8 Refusal to study one

with a student (6)

9 Spanish entertainer to

lecture on gold (8)

10 Call vice about a bone (8)

11 Leave directions

with aristocrat (3,3)

12 This improved, wearing right garment (5)

13 Setback makes

bishop depressed (4)

14 Insect and cat returned with horse (4)

16 Spreading bile after a month, making some noise (7)

18 Distraught fellow managed to get twitch (7)

20 Married expert produces old weapon (4)

21 Implement for removing front of seat (4)

22 Chronometer in view (5)

25 Restrain flies flying around the top (6)

27 Prisoner penalised and held (8)

28 Internal attention used to achieve balance (5,3)

29 Jump in quiet, sudden movement (6)

Down

1 Left in moorland to acquire fitness (6)

2 Some beef for second-place team (10)

3 Cut succeeded with large diamonds (5)

4 Terribly sleepy, taking junction at a sharp angle (7)

5 Encounter effort in artist’s style (9)

6 Last order for a sailor (4)

7 Cite font crumbling that comes down on married couple (8)

14 Lying cad returns, following soldiers with promises (10)

15 Lived through storm, say, with journalist (9)

17 Old drama is tough (8)

19 Firm new thread in agreement (7)

23 Obvious, without a chap losing heart to priests (6)

24 Son dozes in breaks (5)

26 Loud swimmer’s stroke (4)