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 Concepts aside, it’s puzzling (5) 9 Evidence for, belonging to (5) 10 Cylindrical part of unique Madagascan (5) 12 Dog called about giro fraud (5) 14 Picture Clue 15 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue 2 Upstart in love, crazy for egg cell (5) 3 Water horse spellbound by championship point (5) 4 Picture Clue 6 Picture Clue 7 Picture Clue 11 Entry that’s not to one’s credit! (5) 13 New (or any synthetic) material (5)