PITCHERWITS

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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 Numbers of inns

with a way out (5) 8 Far beyond, yet within catapult range! (5)

9 Cite hospital as being the origins of a moral rule (5)

11 Stoutly, not to be changed, or hearty (5)

12 Picture Clue

13 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue

2 Shouts at the yodellers who rode out (5)

3 Crafty aide’s turn to bid farewell (5) 4 Picture Clue

5 Picture Clue

6 Picture Clue

10 Carefully cleared away ad for fish basket (5)

11 End that’s a

bit immoral? (5)

1a. Training my meerkat on where to get short term loans (5,6)

5a. Picked on Bill? Due to be sorted (7)

4d. Conjuror’s invitation written out in dark cyanate (4,3,4)

1d. Try unsuccessfully not to emaciate the little jacket (7,4)

5d. Crowded when wiping oil off messy double chin! (7)

6d. Stated in a peculiar fact bank (4,3)

12a. Diet duo, alas, became extinct (4,3)

13a. A bit hardline to be used to lag! (5,6)