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 ON MONDAY

ACROSS

1 Picture Clue 7 Mad for braid? Crazy! (5) 8 Picture Clue 11 Odyssey writer — in cartoon? (5) 13 Skivvie’s gear — mixer or pan? (5) 14 Picture Clue 16 Padres, said to include garment (5) 18 Picture Clue

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2 Steal Roy’s partner (3) 3 Picture Clue 4 Just bullion, lying insided (4) 5 Picture Clue 6 Picture Clue 9 Picture Clue 10 Novello the engine? (4) 12 Zoom in — kitted out with fur (4) 15 Edge is quietly made from plant fibre (4) 17 Bird would do better with late following (3)

9d. It got bigger when pax ended in failure (8)

3d. Adore old designs of dreamland (8)

18a. Run-down through too much applause? (7,3)

14a. Excited kin get sax used by academic (7)

6d. Citric, char-cooked stuff for nit-picker (4-6)

5d. Canine persistence? (10)

8a. Bogey, in transit, doing as it’s told (7)

1a. Mud, ere long oozing out – a health hazard (5,5)