PITCHERWITS TM

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 7 See, they say, how this canoe is made (5) 8 Stood around for task list (2-3) 9 Disc has twisted cord, by the meter (2-3) 11 It’s a pony, may I point out? (5) 12 Picture Clue 13 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue 2 From the side of a live final? (3-2) 3 One northerner’s race place (5) 4 Picture Clue 5 Picture Clue 6 Picture Clue 10 How soldiers can dress (civilly) (5) 11 La Paz, with its own sort of cinema (5)

1d. Peak show from a lady? That’s uncool! (3,3,3,2)

4d. It was a grey soybean recipe, back then... (5,4,2)

5a. Really old MSS in code ( sic) (7)

1a. “Girl get your gun,” from a Yankee lion (5,6)

13a. Agility, in or around new quality (11)

12a. Pays for pattern that’s safe and dry (7)

6d. ‘Cul-de-sacs’ online? (7)

5d. Acquitted, having brightened up? (7)