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 Begin embracing the French actress (7)

5 Interrupt to provide accommodation (7)

10 Energy is staggering without a mother (4)

11 Belittling Roger today, sadly (10)

12 Shouted underneath about liberal journalist (8)

13 Piece that is for a novice (6)

14 A portal made of stone (5)

16 Young lady on a list is open to question (9)

19 Create a brief act to be performed (9)

21 Rubbery lips around a stone (5)

23 Teacher acquires large victory in second place (6)

25 Memento to maintain advantage (8)

27 Useful work by a lake (10)

28 The shape of cricket in London? (4)

29 About dramas and shows again (7)

30 Penniless at home, interrupted (5,2)

Down

2 Nonsense food (5)

3 Part of mechanism got a ruler confused (9)

4 Snowed terribly, getting supplies (6)

6 African lager ordered by Scot (8)

7 Playing a trio in proportion (5)

8 Like a sweet drink, in a warm way (9)

9 Connection to a game (6)

15 Courage to hide a ton – somehow due appreciation (9)

17 Sorry cake recreated as a tourist attraction (5,4)

18 Dearth to disfigure metropolis (8)

20 Catching, thanks to monarch (6)

22 Tentative proposal for a whisker (6)

24 Forthright villains start on coal production (5)

26 A shade military (5)