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 7 Surreal, but not as it can be for underlining (5) 8 Weathermen, when waterless, are macho types! (2-3) 9 Gizmo deliberately reduced to mock-up status (5) 11 Mock — but eat informally (5) 12 Picture clue 13 Picture clue

DOWN

1 Picture clue 2 Safe to say, he’s a cracker, man? (5) 3 Blair leaves bridle-path to arrange profundity (5) 4 Picture clue 5 Picture clue 6 Picture clue 10 Stoutly, not to be changed or hearty (5) 11 Tin lung, essential in very wet conditions (5)