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 8 Song on disc for a train? (5) 9 Massage naked? — scandalous! (5) 10 Salad leaves, with big spoon to serve from (5) 12 Look! A piece of little giraffe (5) 14 Picture Clue 15 Picture Clue DOWN 1 Picture Clue 2 Lay an awkward way for an antelope! (5) 3 Free verse, talking about thread (5) 4 Picture Clue 6 Picture Clue 7 Picture Clue 11 Doggone — it’s endlessly out of sight! (5) 13 Against, but rounded down for clownish stunt (5)

4d. Servile drip could hammer foundations! (11)

6d. Islands — but not Skye (nor equivalent) (7)

1d. Banana lists badly in S Hertfordshire (5,6)

5a. Helper to re-locate, around end of July (7)

1a. Nut persists in being mad in W Hollywood (6,5)

15a. Stilettos that could take a caning? (11)

14a. Have less of ghost — or apparition (2,5)

7d. Mrs Lennon rings about nooky! (4,3)