PITCHERWITS

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 8 Musical endings of radarscope (5) 9 Bereaved sort of spider? (5) 10 Middle C lately having some dazzle (5) 12 Suggest you trim plywood a little (5) 14 Picture Clue 15 Picture Clue DOWN 1 Picture Clue 2 Unease, without a pattern to follow (5) 3 Typed and locked? (5) 4 Picture Clue 6 Picture Clue 7 Picture Clue 11 A loss, calculated to be ropey (5) 13 Safe to say, he’s a cracker, man? (5)

Yesterday’s solution ACROSS: 1 Embankment. 7 Posit. 8 Clout. 9 Exoneration. 11 Surface area. 14 Ombre. 15 Shirk. 16 First light. DOWN: 1 Expression. 2 Basso. 3 Net. 4 Macramé. 5 Naomi. 6 Eton jacket. 10 Erasers. 12 Rabbi. 13 Ruing. 15 Sol.