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SIR LANCELOT AND HIS PAGE WIN £250

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 Worry about division’s top

team (5)

4 Stupefied animal gets

a drink (9)

9 Team alarm went off

in old school (4,5)

10 Implore a knight to get

started (5)

11 Withstand sister’s

manoeuvre (6)

12 A real cat, ordered as

a separate dish (1,2,5)

14 Expected drawer back

as recompense (3,6)

15 Old gran played

instrument (5)

17 Daughter Sue worried about

large fights (5)

19 Polite at table – that’s what

the queen gets (5,4)

22 Direction – try line out to

the full extent (8)

24 Show-off composing prose

about university (6)

26 Sharpener found in a bad

mood (5)

27 Rascal is love-sick and likely

to collapse (9)

28 Voyager to overtake, turning

green (9)

29 Tries different layers (5) Down

1 Burnt vegetable about to

be included (7)

2 Block a setting for decorative

process (9)

3 Means mixing directions

together (2,5)

4 Appealing to reduce

energy (4)

5 Bird loved utter nonsense (10) 6 Boat meandering around firm

plant (7)

7 Country reign in disarray (5)

8 Is adolescent able to find

somewhere to eat? (7)

13 Jeering feline vocation (10)

16 Advice from Enid – guile

ordered (9)

17 Embellish key on new

purses (5,2)

18 Spruce spreading around

large reservation (7)

20 Sentry finding hooligan

holding nothing, all right? (7) 21 Sailor obtains his

objectives (7)

23 Flags and wheel covers,

we hear (5)

25 Resort to row, initially,

and quarrel (4)

THE PAGE’S QUICK CLUES

Across 1 Small group

of people (5)

4 In a stupor (9)

9 One’s former school (4,5) 10 Commenced (5)

11 Hold out against (6)

12 Ordered as separate

dishes (1,2,5)

14 Reasonable

compensation (3,6)

15 Keyboard instrument (5) 17 Contests (5)

19 Royal allowance (5,4)

22 Completely (8)

24 Affected person (6) 26 Fit of temper (5)

27 Tending to cave in (9) 28 Commuter (9)

29 Layers (5)

Down

1 Partially burnt (7)

2 Metal inlaying

process (9)

3 As a group (2,5)

4 Attractive (4)

5 Bird with sort

purring call (10) 6 Plant of the

nightshade family (7) 7 African country (5)

8 Food hall (7)

13 Shouting with

disapproval (10)

16 Recommendation (9) 17 Wear evening

attire (5,2)

18 Feeling of doubt (7) 20 Sentry (7)

21 Goals (7)

23 Grows weary (5)

25 Practise boxing (4)

Get Puzzling!

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