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 Dearest son is

inside cupboard (7)

5 Riches distribute­d

by hard love (7)

10 Just a lake (4)

11 Left a wife to wave

to offender (10)

12 Doctor taken by new

lichen issue (8)

13 Upset me with

tiny antagonism (6)

14 Some rituals have

commendati­on (5)

16 First person heard batsman

was a revelation (3,6)

19 Following rules

next to tome (2,3,4)

21 Almost cite a share (5)

23 Poet to leave

European article (6)

25 Cephalgia can be

a nuisance (8)

27 Comfort once cloned

inaccurate­ly (10)

28 Enthusiast­ically removing first

couple without purpose (4)

29 Slide off, holding the

old features (7)

30 Choirs performing about

knight from county (7)

Down

2 Bloodsucke­r finds

shelter by church (5)

3 Explosive search for

some seafood (9)

4 Earnings as transporte­d by

the French railway (6)

6 Henry bores about bull having

something to travel in (8)

7 More almonds around field (5) 8 Candy for dessert, and

beef, say (9)

9 Score a number of points (6) 15 Eccentric yet

gloomy derivation (9)

17 Bird language has nothing

for reproducti­on (9)

18 Sailor went by ship, say,

and used rope (8)

20 Performing assistant

is ready (2,4)

22 Look over black,

round pavilion (6)

24 Time dial worked

like some rivers (5)

26 Gaps in entireties, we hear (5)

THE PAGE’S QUICK CLUES Across

1 Most adjacent (7) 5 Adore (7)

10 Lake (4)

11 Criminal (10)

12 Youngsters (8)

13 Hatred (6)

14 Deserve (5)

16 Revelation (3,6) 19 According to

the rules (2,3,4) 21 Allocation (5)

23 German poet (6) 25 Painful affliction (8) 27 Sympathy (10)

28 With no particular

purpose (4)

29 Facial features (7) 30 From an English

county (7)

Down

2 Parasite (5)

3 Type of seafood (9) 4 Wage (6)

6 Equine trailer (8)

7 Kingdom (5) 8 Item of

confection­ery (9)

9 Number (6)

15 Word’s origin (9)

17 Imitation (9)

18 Descended

using rope (8)

20 Available (2,4)

22 Summer house (6) 24 Affected by changes

in sea level (5)

26 Gaps (5)

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