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
9 Period before sporting
event at university (3-2)
10 Welcome a function (9)
11 Leave toes wriggling?
Kitty declines (4,2,3)
12 Rowers had dinner, we hear (5) 13 Vital review on a country (6)
14 Displaying is considerate (8)
16 Having money, but thinner (7) 18 Easy aim of antiperspirant (2,5) 20 Servant to hold back queen (8) 22 Stones initially destined
for flooring (6)
25 Reported spectacles
and locations (5)
26 Surpass one sign for
shapely bushes (9)
28 Again, bring new
reed organ (9)
29 The last to reserve virtual
entertainment (1-4)
Down
1 Mist enveloping
river creature (4)
2 Fashionable stone has succeeded, but not seriously (2,4)
3 Show contempt and
dismiss fighter (8)
4 Diagram shows head of
geography playing harp (5)
5 Britons yearn to
be evergreen (5,4)
6 Seem a very quiet listener (6)
7 Dim guise managed
to delude (8)
8 Started eccentric
dating site (10)
13 Endure spa, when all else
has failed (4,6)
15 Observant musical about
having accommodation (9)
17 Parallel freedom (8)
19 Philosopher boxes
like this first (8)
21 Within single part of boot (6)
23 Chief rioted in a new way (6)
24 Rust treatment includes
phosphorus spray (5)
27 Purpose of alcoholic drink (4)
THE PAGE’S QUICK CLUES Across
9 Preceding
period (3-2)
10 Acceptance (9)
11 Deteriorates (4,2,3) 12 Number (5)
13 European
country (6)
14 Gentlemanly (8)
16 Debt-free (7)
18 It doesn’t
matter (2,5)
20 Periodic payment (8) 22 Long, tedious
speech (6)
25 Locations (5)
26 Ornamentally
shaped shrubs (9) 28 Convey again (9) 29 Novel in digital
form (1-4)
Down
1 Amphibian (4)
2 Not seriously (2,4) 3 Fighter plane (8)
4 Diagram (5) 5 Evergreen tree (5,4)
6 Turn up (6)
7 Deceive (8)
8 Set in motion (10)
13 Final course
of action (4,6)
15 Watchful (9)
17 Leeway (8)
19 Greek philosopher (8) 21 Shoe part (6)
23 Newspaper chief (6) 24 Gush (5)
27 Benefit (4)