The Sunday Mail - 01.09.2019

The Mail on Sunday SEPTEMBER 1 • 2019

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.

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Sir LanceLoT and hiS Page

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    Across

9    Swimming style (5)

    10   Form of

ownership (9)

    11   Inferior (5-4)

    12   Row of bushes (5)

    13   Israeli monetary

unit (6)

    14   Woodwind

instrument (8)

    16   European country (7)

    18   Private soldier (7)

    20   More courageous (8)

The Page’S quick cLueS

Sir LanceLoT’S

cryPTic cLueS

All of the

listed

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into the grid

and there’s

only one

way to do it.

One number

has been

provided to

get you

started.

Answer next

week.

nuMberfiT

PaThfinder

Beginning with

the letter P in

the square

box, follow

a continuous

path to find

23 words that

rhyme with

‘whale’. The

trail passes

through each

and every

letter once

and may twist

up, down or

sideways,

but never

diagonally.

Answer next

week.

win £250

PLAy iSPy fOr yOur

ChANCE TO wiN £250!

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P L K A L E L L E D A

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L A C S Q L I I A C S

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R E A I L I A L H A I

L I A N T H A I R G L

E E D B M U R F A I L

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H A T A S N L I A C O

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9 Ingratiate oneself with
swimming style (5)
10 Contract storage area
in type of property (9)
11 Yet another scale
is shoddy (5-4)
12 Avoid commitment
to a boundary (5)
13 Henry’s head seen
in terribly sleek coin (6)
14 Note I learnt to play
on instrument (8)
16 Terribly banal island next
to a country (7)
18 Reliable person gets poorer,
sadly, after time (7)
20 Braver to play guitar with
current queen (8)
22 Bountiful sign of pregnancy?
I’m not sure (6)
25 Part of dress – was it altered? (5)
26 Ten meagre changes
to negotiated arrangement (9)
28 Cheerful, finding energy
in bullet design (9)
29 Pass one head of chambers
a childish complaint (5)
Down
1 Cost upsetting a fellow Brit (4)
2 Artist and wine producer
gorge (6)
3 Move on acquiring
Liberal club (8)
4 Played game, wearing large
sparkle (5)
5 Form of broadcasting
that is subordinate (9)
6 The first there loosened a tie (6)
7 Freezing time limit involves
elderly Poles (4,4)
8 Wanderer’s arrival by one river,
then another (10)
13 Cleaner quietly rowed about
TV series first (4,6)
15 Attentive person who looks after
a building (9)
17 Boy starts to turn quiet about
small shop (8)
19 Old money gets university
student some lavishness (8)
21 Restrict protesters to boiling
implement (6)
23 All ape cooked was
a rice dish (6)
24 Time woman produced
the facts (5)
27 Circuit doesn’t have right
approach (4)

    22   Car’s safety bar (6)

    25   Middle part

of the body (5)

    26   Harmony (9)

    28   Buoyant (9)

    29   Abdominal pain (5)

    Down

1    Northern Briton (4)

2    Canyon (6)

3    Cudgel (8)

4    Glisten (5)

5    Moon, for

example (9)

6    Restraint (6)

7    Chilly spell (4,4)

8    Daredevil (10)

    13   Washing detergent (4,6)

    15   Janitor (9)

    17   Clothes shop (8)

    19   Wealth (8)

    21   Container used

to boil liquids (6)

    23   Traditional Spanish

rice dish (6)

    24   Veracity (5)

    27   Small nail (4)

4 digits

1947

7845

7870

8627

5 digits

14664

34784

45421

65367

6 digits

408541

437212

452134

646876

654501

747902

901976

904675

7 digits

3548473

7531464

7598529

7651324

8 digits

16816282

32480588

87658621

98764541

Last week’s answer: 6

Sir LanceLoT and hiS Page ACROSS: 8 Depart, 9 Waitress, 10 Pleasure,

11 Maniac, 12 Sweat, 13 Term, 14 Drab, 16 Hacksaw, 18 Another, 20 Lean, 21 Fate, 22 Ankle,

25 Buffet, 27 Psaltery, 28 Et cetera, 29 Frozen.

DOWN: 1 Fellow, 2 Banana skin, 3 Stout, 4 Sweeper, 5 Firmament, 6 Wren, 7 Escalate,

14 Detonation, 15 Gas fitter, 17 Adequate, 19 Utopian, 23 Larder, 24 Gaffe, 26 Flea.

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Last

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answer:

1,12,2

SUMMIT UP 90 WORD BUILDER Are, hare, earth, hearth, heath, hate, the WORD SQUARE ACROSS: 1 Local, 2 Imago, 3 Legit, 4 Agent, 5 Cadge. DOWN: 1 Lilac, 2 Omega, 3 Caged, 4 Aging, 5 Lotte. ARROWORD SNOW WHITE BULL’S EyE able, alee, bagel, bale, beagle,

beetle, belt, betel, bevel, blat, bleat, eagle, eaglet, elate, elevate, gable, gale, gavel, glee, late, lave, leave, legate, legatee, levee, table, tale, teal, vale, valet, veal, VEGETABLE (32)

PUB QUIz 1 Four (Rope, Rear Window, The Man Who Knew

Too Much, Vertigo), 2 Billie Eilish, 3 Tomorrow’s World, 4 Gary

Player, 5 Iron, 6 Crete, 7 The pangolin, 8 Bauhaus, 9 a) A dye,

10 The Great Ouse, 11 Rutger Hauer, 12 Richard Nixon.

DINgBATS 1 Box clever, 2 Through thick ‘n’ thin,

3 Sign on the dotted line, 4 Better late than never.

BRAIN TRAIN

A-B=39, B-C=47,

C-D=845.

DITLOIDS

1 1919: Signing of the Treaty of Versailles, 2 The House

of the 7 Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne, 3 660 Feet

in a Furlong, 4 Across 110th Street by Bobby Womack,

5 A Cricket Pitch is 22 Yards Long, 6 Close Encounters

of the 3rd Kind.

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Last week’s answer: MUEzzIN

Prize croSSWord auguST 25 SoLuTionS, no 1919 ACROSS: 1 Hideout, 5 Jimmy Carter, 10 Darts,

11 Schemes, 13 Corin, 14 Armadillo, 15 Treadmill, 16 Graf, 17 A Grand Day Out, 20 Ares, 21 Acquittal, 22 Comb, 26 Rosetta Stone, 27 Levy,

29 September, 31 Aguecheek, 33 Taint, 34 Eidetic, 35 Igloo, 36 Ostentation, 37 Emerson.

DOWN: 1 Hydrangea, 2 Durum, 3 Obsidian, 4 Tussle, 5 John of Gaunt, 6 Mamet, 7 Ascidian, 8 Terminology, 9 Ringlet, 12 Stendhal,

16 Greasepaint, 18 Aston Martin, 19 Scrabble, 23 Breakdown, 24 Atherton, 25 Perceive, 26 Risotto, 28 Quiche, 30 Radii, 32 Ellis.

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1. Nc6! bxc6 2. Qxg7+ Kxg7


2. Be5+ Kh6 4. Bg7 mate. If 1... Qf6


3. Be5 also wins quickly.

geT PuzzLing!

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