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PIT your wits against Pitcherwits — the exciting puzzle where some of the answers are in pictures! The solutions to the visual clues fit into the shaded spaces on the grid. Solution tomorrow.

ACROSS

1 Picture Clue 5 Picture Clue 9 Pieces of stucco, dating the finale (4) 10 Halt cooking of meal (4) 11 Dog called about giro fraud (5) 12 Omen, understated in dish list (4) 13 Part of a tangled snare (4) 14 Picture Clue 16 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue 2 Rower? — something of a hoary old chestnut! (3) 3 Blow a fuse at end of exercise! (3) 4 Picture Clue 6 Picture Clue 7 United States writer — or haute cuisine? (7) 8 Picture Clue 14 Flypast said to be worse than a cold (3) 15 Suitable tap-dance (3)