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.

ACROSS

1 Picture Clue 5 Picture Clue 7 ‘Money’, for

a sucker? (5) 8 Doles out crocodiles to bloom in spring (5) 9 Roman villa built round blacksmith’s gear (5) 11 Nominal, but it’s OK in a decimal system (5) 12 Picture Clue 13 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue 2 Frostily finished

in Sicily? (5) 3 Some thickskinned moral! (5) 4 Picture Clue 5 Picture Clue 6 Picture Clue 10 Not a linear sort of ship? (5) 11 Now what gets wetter as it dries? (5)

12a. Starting afresh? That’s what we could learn about (7)

1a. Bet a climate change could criss-cross under your roof! (7,4)

5d. Like a rash when it’s finished? (3,4)

6d. Sneakily enrols as a keen beginner, for a breather (7)

4d. Airline limo driven round to pick up rich one (11)

13a. Little by little, it’s a fertilizer (4,7)

5a. This gal’s crazy as she comes to rest (7)

1d. Hawk-eyed lawmen? (5,6)