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 Small department has no terminal (5) 8 Lance, designed to wash (5) 9 Squeeze wiring I discarded (5) 11 Nag could be wise without a bad end (5) 12 Picture Clue 13 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue 2 Travel with no power to shore (5) 3 Copy big road in little microphone (5) 4 Picture Clue 5 Picture Clue 6 Picture Clue 10 Scraper player — sounds a bit gawdy (5) 11 Faun — could be a stray (5)

4d. Thinking about it, how aunty cooks in wok (3,4,4)

1d. Fraudulent fossil — to implant downwards (8,3)

5a. A cinema, re-opened but lacking in vigour (7)

1a. Copy rampant behaviour, separate (4,7)

13a. Crazy story on tour — unsuitable! (3,4,4)

12a. That’s warped! (It’d stew, unfortunately) (7)

6d. Yelled, ‘Hooray!’ at creed he devised (7)

5d. Pop in at random to furnish (7)