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 European copper on wrong road to the country (7) 5 Graduates harbour small thing about rice (7) 10 Strain if good man comes round (4) 11 Changing to oriental forbearance (10) 12 Voice of doom first to follow morning call (8) 13 Ruler brings his own salad (6) 14 Pause around old sink (5) 16 Yield, having captured terribly inept predator (9) 19 Dance in courtyard by stream with energy (9) 21 Get annoyed, passenger having loud top (5) 23 Strong push on large implement (6) 25 Crept sneakily around incorporated boundaries (8) 27 Self-disciplined sailor to misuse organisation (10) 28 Contemporary with part-timer (4) 29 Puncture, getting another in Scottish river (7) 30 Dull prisoner is a goose (7)
DOWN
2 Fever caught on slope (5) 3 Last bit of writing, following verbally (9) 4 Tax review in salad dressing and soup (6) 6 Eccentric coy trait is an outrage (8) 7 Engineers assembled first at a certain distance (5) 8 Ambidextrous person may be half its cast (3-6) 9 Fool and her top English dress (6) 15 Tangible counter masks painful sound (9) 17 Trifling with Frenchman is a form of clairvoyancy (9) 18 Tactful person gets qualification on time (8) 20 Left before a quiet pet influenced person (6) 22 Delete parts of score composed around noon (6) 24 Woman grasps object of prime importance (5) 26 Mark finds a butterfly (5)
THE PAGE’S QUICK CLUES ACROSS
1 South American country whose capital is Quito (7) 5 Type of rice (7) 10 Scrutinise (4) 11 Liberality (10) 12 Scaremonger (8) 13 Roman emperor title (6) 14 Bend (5) 16 Many-legged creature (9) 19 Square dance (9) 21 Distress signal (5) 23 Spade (6) 25 District (8) 27 Sparing (10) 28 Office worker (4) 29 Subdue (7) 30 Large goose (7)
DOWN
2 Coldness (5) 3 Concluding book section (9) 4 Type of soup (6) 6 Cruel act (8) 7 Unit of length (5) 8 Play with a very small cast (3-6) 9 Provide with attire (6) 15 Within reach (9) 17 Fortune telling (9) 18 Ambassador (8) 20 Pampered pet (6) 22 Official examiner (6) 24 Essential (5) 26 Punctuation mark indicating a slight pause (5)