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 Secret rendezvous, masked by entry stipulations (5)

8 Odds, that aren’t? (5)

9 All amateurs can produce is a little woolly camel? (5)

11 Magnetics, sent out for conjuring (5)

12 Picture Clue

13 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue

2 A smart routine for trimming fish? (5)

3 Thread running through all free verse? (5)

4 Picture Clue

5 Picture Clue

6 Picture Clue

10 Elizabethan village centre that’s an iron block! (5)

11 Harmonious sounds of a poorly cow? (5)

5d. To the heavens, with drays running on just a kilowatt (7)

1d. Top pitch team to hit out at fervent lies (5,6)

4d. Marrow trapped, say, in this play-site? (6,5)

13a. Fancy sewing, but it’ll fade away at the lectern (11)

12a. Gets rid of controversial ID’s for vets? (7)

1a. Prime produce from fir, if made into struts (5,6)

5a. Strikers, say, get ridiculously crosser (7)

6d. Toboggans, with grasses left in (7)