SIR LANCELOT AND HIS PAGE

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 Hates organised qualifying

rounds (5)

10 Deadline in final doesn’t

end with hesitation (9)

11 Inform on a role and see

the difference (4,5)

12 Canoe unsuitable for

so much water (5)

13 Hinder rascal getting

keys (6)

14 Weariest form, in a manner of speaking (2,2,4)

16 Generous politician (7)

18 Adds air in area set out (7)

20 Joke in metro about

loan (8)

22 Initiates a pop duo (6)

25 Calling in about

revolutionary (5)

26 Frantic animal has time

to rush (5,4)

28 Drunk, use needles close

together (5-4)

29 It took place in

the Seventies (5)

Down

1 Reach a trade-off

with talk (4)

2 Resentment at work

reaches a fast pace (6)

3 Irishman, say, sees land

rise, worried (8)

4 Heel from the

Caribbean (5)

5 American political

leader (9)

6 Buy in one medium

fortified wine (6)

7 Small peg, nuisance,

and most expensive (8)

8 Assistant ordering Asian

menus (10)

13 I will compose a minuet

that’s light (10)

15 Lamenting strange

positioning (9)

17 Grab dice, playing

for pen (8)

19 Record a type of music

paper (3,5)

21 Got the layout for

a slum (6)

23 The aim of literature? (6)

24 Secreted around part

of Greece (5)

27 Left, serious about

amphibians (4)