SIR LANCELOT AND HIS PAGE

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 9 Pull out of the avenue (5) 10 Friend joins foreign character at gallery for pound (9) 11 Runner gives hearty encouragement (9) 12 Caught nobleman backing an undesirable person (5) 13 Making a hole dull (6) 14 Following everyone, most importantly (5,3) 16 Advice from local authority, by the sound of it (7) 18 Beg for space to put handle (7) 20 Chewed on icons – strangely, they’re virtually valuable (8) 22 Work turned into alternative (6) 25 Right time to come back and send money (5) 26 Slow starter found dead on part of stair (4,5) 28 Company note managed to turn to anger (9) 29 Cut small prisons (5) Down 1 Fellow winner, no longer married (4) 2 Performer dismantled top using crane (6) 3 End of the line for some time in America (8) 4 Singular fish showing barb (5) 5 Explained it’s like ghee (9) 6 Bad shot and terrible music, note (6) 7 Corrupt traitor, with Euro as a basis for lending (4,4) 8 Confused, anoint pale Italian (10) 13 Returned arsonist to place of low priority (4,6) 15 Group of passengers board, having left nothing nowadays (9) 17 Best friend follows turn to left – it varies (8) 19 Record operatic cycle, getting narrower (8) 21 Yield in unacceptable place (6) 23 Creature found within group (6) 24 Drain gallon off, say (5) 27 Entrusted with oxidation (4)