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

1 Astonish animal, say,

returning to river (7)

5 Divert attention away from part

of performance area (7)

10 Local man hides, serene (4)

11 Instrument adjuster

upset one puritan (5,5)

12 Musical group in pieces (5,3)

13 Crooner, after

notes, retreating (6)

14 Ladle shortly to contain

phosphorus (5)

16 Explosive cat is

strangely inflated (9)

19 Class turn overdue

being put together (9)

21 Suspicious as a bass? (5)

23 Rummage around for a

hunter of rabbits (6)

25 Never used gossip

as a weapon (5,3)

27 Outfit treated as fair

legal action (6,4)

28 Material left behind court (4)

29 Garment – I say! –

returned for scrap (7)

30 One crying about

large dribble (7)

Down

2 Instruct every team

leader to go first (5)

3 Organised groom same

place to play (5,4)

4 Uncover old attitude (6)

6 Sayings in the

Old Testament (8)

7 Digit with its own rule (5)

8 Environmental hag with no

time for part of London (9)

9 Parade a personal design (6)

15 Dame prone to

change walk (9)

17 Bird weeps about trap (9)

18 About to behold item

that can be worn (8)

20 Language from

wanton guest (6)

22 Savage has some

champagne with a Liberal (6)

24 Criticise cook (5)

26 Negative end to

a neutral lyric (5)

THE PAGE’S QUICK CLUES Across

1 Reel (7)

5 Away from the

audience (7)

10 Serene (4)

11 Musical

adjuster (5,5)

12 Game pieces (5,3)

13 Receding (6)

14 Cutlery item (5)

16 Pompous (9)

19 Draw up (9)

21 Questionable (5)

23 Domesticated

polecat (6)

25 Chemical

weapon (5,3)

27 Lightweight

outfit (6,4)

28 Knitting material (4)

29 Smallest amount (7)

30 Drool (7)

Down

2 Educate (5)

3 Recreation

area (5,4)

4 Reveal (6)

6 Maxims (8)

7 Hand part (5)

8 London area (9)

9 Body art (6)

15 Esplanade (9)

17 Insect trap (9)

18 Attire (8)

20 Mouth part (6)

22 Cruel (6)

24 Cook in the oven (5)

26 Terminal of

a battery (5)