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SIR LANCELOT AND HIS PAGE

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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 Auction includes British fur (5)

4 Choose a role to criticise harshly (4,5)

9 Advertising in favour of proposal (9)

10 Her and my composition sound the same (5)

11 Passion makes artist turn unfriendly (6)

12 Removed channel indeed (8)

14 An overage criminal, usually (2,7)

15 Key to dire concoction – removed moisture (5)

17 Argue, not having caught rider (5)

19 Stainless compound shows a seasoned quality (9)

22 Flatter dim TV series (4-4)

24 Made a scratch and gained a point (6)

26 Chance for a parasite (5)

27 Get going – flan is behind excitement (4-5)

28 Thin legs, terribly small, lack of substance (9)

29 Rushes to get some instruments (5)

Down

1 Poor as review about new singer (7)

2 Relatives rely on vital store (5,4)

3 Recite Spanish article, old and lovely (7)

4 Most important to remove end when stuffy (4)

5 Building recalled in folk tale (10)

6 Foundered for a reason (7)

7 Terribly easy time, so far (2,3)

8 Unfinished sample finished, and was popular (7)

13 Tumbledown sheep and their beastly hairs (10)

16 At home, mixing tea and brie, awfully drunk (9)

17 Retiring as a fairy tale character (7)

18 Regard spectre another way (7)

20 Tooth, incorporated, is gold (7)

21 Points to appointments and calms down (7)

23 Loud organ is pitched (5)

25 Unusual case for experts (4)

THE PAGE’S QUICK CLUES Across

1 Marten (5)

4 Dismantle (4,5)

9 Encouragement (9)

10 Poem (5)

11 Zeal (6)

12 Subtracted (8)

14 Broadly (2,7)

15 Desiccated (5)

17 Motorcycle rider (5)

19 Saline quality (9)

22 Cajole (4-4)

24 Made a goal (6)

26 Coincidence (5)

27 Provide impetus (4-5)

28 Levity (9)

29 Water plants (5)

Down

1 Singing voice (7)

2 Vital fluid store (5,4)

3 Declaim (7)

4 Demure (4)

5 Pantomime character (10)

6 Beached (7)

7 Up to now (2,3)

8 Was popular online (7)

13 Dilapidated (10)

16 Drunk (9)

17 Shy (7)

18 Esteem (7)

20 Type of tooth (7)

21 Tranquillises (7)

23 Threw (5)

25 Playing cards (4)

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