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

7 Tropical plant to alter a volume in one day (5)

8 Model, finished in delicate, small style (5)

9 Reel that loops back on itself (5)

11 Tea rose or not, it’s just a leg-pull! (5)

12 Picture Clue

13 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue

2 Badly overextend toner that’s run out, so to be bothered (5)

3 Break from work in desert (5)

4 Picture Clue

5 Picture Clue

6 Picture Clue

10 Cable North

for fabric (5)

11 Tara, taking one in with the headgear (5)

1d. Exiles to brace for difficulties that can be used (11)

4d. Modification of gene needs reining in for technology (11)

12a. Aesthetic works aren’t, if taken the wrong way (4,3)

13a. Circumstances found in deciphering Guinean text (11)

5d. Reprimand and remove the horrid little sucker? (4,3)

6d. Fainted, but somehow fiercely resistant still (7)

5a. HMRC group, say, would be bad for the Chancellor? (3,4)

1a. Leave quince that’s been cooked, to find equality (11)