SIR LANCELOT AND HIS PAGE
PLAY ISPY FOR YOUR
CHANCE TO 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
9 Entire world to honour heartless gal first (5)
10 Participant used Iraqi fuel (9)
11 Bidet is ordered with eccentric payment method (5,4)
12 Auction item – American flower (5)
13 Not applicable to changing true character (6)
14 Insect fled, as an alternative (4,4)
16 Devon – it managed to get elected (5,2)
18 Smoke with a scent may infuriate (7)
20 Soaring away, having registered detachment (8)
22 Type of footprint left in element (6)
25 Track down wrong crate (5)
26 New grounding –that was close (4,5)
28 Begin moving to Nigeria (9)
29 Row of similar guests (5)
Down
1 Four keys, getting old (4)
2 Search a junction for some action (6)
3 Wild steer given food outside that rotted (8)
4 Team in small courtyard (5)
5 Deliver graduate’s trendy bathroom item (9)
6 Professional loses head and gets terminated (6)
7 Swimming in bath, holding large old event (8)
8 Terribly scarce, tuna and crab, perhaps (10)
13 People take a victory, turning soldier to helmsmanship (10)
15 At home, manic, so, sadly, he can’t go out (9)
17 Partner worried about one reptile (8)
19 Show appreciation for snare? Rubbish (8)
21 One bear roaming around island peninsula (6)
23 Connection to a game (6)
24 Struggle to get iron into thin sheet (5)
27 Merriment in jungle excursion (4)
THE PAGE’S QUICK CLUES
Across
9 Sphere (5)
10 Competitor (9)
11 Banking facility (5,4)
12 Exotic flower (5)
13 Essence (6)
14 Tropical insect (4,4)
16 Elected to office (5,2)
18 Burnt fragrance (7)
20 Military unit (8)
22 Chemical element (6)
25 Tiny amount (5)
26 Close shave (4,5)
28 Start (9)
29 Quarrel (5)
Down
1 Elderly (4)
2 Fighting (6)
3 Decomposed (8)
4 Group (5)
5 Bathroom fixture (9)
6 Massacred (6)
7 Skiing and shooting event (8)
8 Arthropod (10)
13 Steering (10)
15 Person unable to sleep (9)
17 Freshwater turtle (8)
19 Nonsense (8)
21 European peninsula (6)
23 Card game (6)
24 Biscuit (5)
27 Happiness (4)
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