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 Today’s model is a crawler (5) 9 The former Abyssinia, starting with a chasm (5) 10 Loam – a problem in Texan fight (5) 12 Funny kind of bread should end at the beginning (5) 14 Picture Clue 15 Picture Clue

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1 Picture Clue 2 Peculiar diatribe without red bone (5) 3 Wooden insert that’s about to get up late (5) 4 Picture Clue 6 Picture Clue 7 Picture Clue 11 Dialogue, when legless, poses problems for hearing (5) 13 Led on to become ancient (5)

15a. Person peers slyly to see correct meaning (6,5)

1d. Halt – it’s some top coat or other (4,2,1,4)

4d. Declined sea voyage without a sound (4,7)

7d. It’s a no-no, to modify DNA continually (2,3,2)

6d. Rest from work in bad times? (4,3)

14a. Delineated if ended badly (7)

5a. Act quaintly comical, then sleep on it? (7)

1a. Settled – once the hairdo’s finished? (3,3,5)