PITCHERWITSTM

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 Call a man about a little woolly camel (5) 9 Care eventually about thread (5) 10 Pump out, nothing in, then deal with spills (3,2) 12 Scared acrobat not at ease with this venomous one! (5) 14 Picture Clue 15 Picture Clue

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1 Picture Clue 2 Holy city becoming academic with no aid (5) 3 Even suet has something to follow! (5) 4 Picture Clue 6 Picture Clue 7 Picture Clue 11 Flyer trapped in pipe, without extraction possible (5) 13 Music box (sic) not made to be plump! (5)

15a. Looking a bit peaky in the international conference? (2,3,6)

6d. Expressionless form to paean bad ends (7)

14a. Drinks container for ibex, now extinct (4,3)

7d. Bronco about to chew the maize (7)

1a. Huge achievement said to be with old elephants paws? (7,4)

5a. Really old MSS written in code (sic) (7)

1d. Power obsession to paint me in a magnolia setting (11)

4d. Get kit ready to enact the permit seller (6,5)