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 8 Huge regal design (5) 9 Easy for Ken to do martial art! (5) 10 List on your finger? (5) 12 When, e.g. it’s an attempt (5) 14 Picture Clue 15 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue 2 Deduce the finer aspects (5) 3 Rough once again, Gina emerges from the sea (5) 4 Picture Clue 6 Picture Clue 7 Picture Clue 11 Stadium is off, because of one fact (5) 13 Ken is made to look like Hank (5) Yesterday’s solution ACROSS: 1 Hartlepool. 7 Lanky. 8 Outdo. 9 Banoffee pie. 11 Roast potato. 14 Eking. 15 Addle. 16 Antechapel. DOWN: 1 Half-buried. 2 Runin. 3 Lay. 4 Prone to. 5 On tap. 6 Come to heel. 10 Fatigue. 12 Alien. 13 Add up. 15 Ash.

1d. Not daft islands to live on? (6,5) 6d. Can help, up and down glaciers (3,4)

15a. Best of all Latin words (6,5) 4d. A crafty form - maybe big in agriculture (7,4)

14a. In proportion, opera with the French (2,5)

5a. Can be crumbled (not with custard) (7)

1a. Fining folks unfairly, leaving furtively (8,3)

7d. Hot rock turned round, say, in cake? (7)