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

1 Alloy of copper

makes money (5)

4 Muddled claims

hob got broken (9)

9 Swimmer’s socialist

hairstyle (3,6)

10 Youngster found

in cellar vault (5)

11 Cheats out of a packet (6)

12 Those gawping about king

being in the altogether (8)

14 Old Greek is real worried

about baby (9)

15 Undergarments are hits (5)

17 Intermediate meal hasn’t

registered for group (5)

19 Land with farm animal provides

subject for experimentation (6,3)

22 Honest girl seeing nothing in

unmissable opportunity (4,4)

24 Awful cramp, going around

turning points (6)

26 Inventor of strange tales (5)

27 Overwhelmed at home,

and not escorted (9)

28 Desire to renovate new

church as a home (9)

29 Engineers manage

to show again (5)

Down

1 Drinks provider is a brat, sadly (7)

2 Kidnapping sailor –

conduit is rebuilt (9)

3 Inhibit moving in of

French scholar (7)

4 Subeditors start to

sort material (4)

5 Against treatise? Quite

the reverse (10)

6 Coach has real problem

getting land (7)

7 Huge order for lager (5)

8 Endlessly pursue relative

in framework (7)

13 Animal, next to people,

shows inactivity (10)

16 Changing a topic – car

requires storage facility (9)

17 Reboots design for amplifier (7)

18 Drawn witch with sentry,

wasting second (7)

20 English copper on wrong

road to the country (7)

21 Cheer and force boy to study (7)

23 Abates, stops, doesn’t start (5)

25 Has to remove son –

European is silent (4)

THE PAGE’S QUICK CLUES Across

1 Alloy (5)

4 Chaotic (9)

9 Food fish (3,6)

10 Immature insect (5)

11 Small sealed bag (6)

12 Naked (8)

14 Greek philosopher (9)

15 Underwear items (5)

17 Bouquet (5)

19 Pet rodent (6,3)

22 Unmissable target (4,4)

24 Pivots (6) 26 Serbian-American

inventor (5)

27 Flooded (9)

28 Home (9)

29 Broadcast again (5) Down

1 Coffee bar worker (7)

2 Kidnapping (9)

3 Undergraduate (7)

4 Shiny material (4)

5 Direct opposite (10)

6 Eastern European

country (7) 7 Big (5)

8 Car frame (7)

13 Lack of development (10)

16 Electric charge storage

device (9)

17 Subsequent

vaccine dose (7)

18 Careworn (7)

20 South American

country (7)

21 Hearten (7)

23 Relaxes (5)

25 Speechless (4) TO ENTER: Complete the Crossword and count how many times the letter ‘i’ appears in the grid. Then text LANCELOT followed by a space, your answer, name and postcode to 65700, eg LANCELOT 9 John Smith W8 5TT. Texts cost £1 plus your standard network rate. To enter by phone, call 0905 652 2140 and leave your answer and details. Calls cost £1 plus your telephone company’s network access charge. Entries will be accepted until 11.59pm on Friday. See below for terms and conditions. Phone and text Helpline 0330 1000 601. iSpy winner November 13: Neil Falconer, of Grimsby, Lincolnshire. Last week’s answer: 12