The Scottish Mail on Sunday

SIR LANCELOT AND HIS PAGE

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SIR LANCELOT’S CRYPTIC CLUES

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.

Across

1 Forthright victory on

coal production (5)

4 Show meeting to have

doctor left (9)

9 Tribesmen seek chore out (9)

10 Turn to universal writing implement,

on the day (5)

11 Terrible ruin gets

journalist toughened (6)

12 Prompt concerning

babysitter (8)

14 Meets cosy arrangemen­t for

biological interactio­n (9)

15 Leisure activity for a falcon (5)

17 Some upset by

second prophet (5)

19 Piece of jewellery dodgy

dealer has set aside (4-5)

22 Jack returning single friend

to a source of heat (8)

24 A drive turned out

to be mixed (6)

26 Room for swiftness,

finally, and speed (5)

27 Shut fort first and

don’t wander off (4,5)

28 Famous song from the past (9)

29 Idolises Dorothy

on two points (5)

Down

1 Vice can change

preventati­ve measure (7)

2 Crude soul, terribly naive (9)

3 Behold huge city in

a relaxed way (7)

4 Woman with time

for an ingredient (4)

5 Architect to

control memory (10)

6 Left out, his assembly

is ill-mannered (7)

7 Neon improved front of

diner very much (2,3)

8 Old, heartless lady behind shrub (7) 13 Task ranked otherwise

when uncovered (5,5)

16 Obtain cod recipe

for marsupial (9)

17 Grandeur and might

surroundin­g joke (7)

18 Remarkable and super

eccentric, this writer (7)

20 Lacklustre youngster went back to detectives (7)

21 Conclusion not quite so infinite (7) 23 Large apes wandering around springs (5)

25 Courage to remove underwear, especially (4)

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