The Scottish Mail on Sunday

SIR LANCELOT AND HIS PAGE

SIR LANCELOT’S CRYPTIC CLUES

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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.

Across

8 Crash in mansion

at university (4-2)

9 Chap within party

has suppositio­ns (8)

10 Exhaust CIA plan,

starting pollution (4,4)

11 Discrimina­tion, and

game is ruined (6)

12 Fellow always in frenzy (5)

13 Sounds feeble for

a few days (4)

14 Naval bird? (4)

16 Settle somewhere in

pub, treating leg (7)

18 Where shoppers are coming

in the future (2,5)

20 Cut in his litter (4)

21 Recess is negative all right (4) 22 Small rush to distribute (5)

25 Child at home with

loud worker (6)

27 Capital strike never ends,

to a degree (8)

28 Ruin note about particle (8)

29 It’s in this shoe?

I don’t think so! (2,4)

Down

1 Friends getting in shape (6)

2 Rowers waded around

first heavy burden (4,6)

3 Atomiser’s bouquet (5)

4 Someone humming

a tricky one (7)

5 Commenting about pattern (9) 6 Liberate at no cost (4)

7 Clothes making

soldiers curse (8)

14 Switch craftily

contains magic (10)

15 Pliant ode about

heavenly body (9)

17 This short? Not

any more (2,6)

19 Record and reserve a

registrati­on document (7)

23 Stolen after socialist is

expected to win (3,3)

24 Excellent small fruit (5)

26 Against chanting outside (4)

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