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 9 Singer discovered in club, as star (4) 10 Hush, if inside, can give a good, sound system (2-2) 11 Taste? None with this dance! (5) 12 Ariadne — the first to give song (4) 13 Shunt off part of preposition (4) 14 Picture Clue 16 Picture Clue DOWN 1 Picture Clue 2 Slippery type — shocking, maybe (3) 3 Not up to ‘100’ (3) 4 Picture Clue 6 Picture Clue 7 Intriguing skeleton key let out ‘elks speech’ (7) 8 Picture Clue 14 Stellar kind of relative? (3) 15 One can be thrown, with expediency (3) Yesterday’s solution ACROSS: 1 All aquiver. 5 Responds. 9 Oath. 10 Opal. 11 Ripen. 12 Than. 14 Stub. 15 Cartland. 18 Homesteads. DOWN: 1 Acrobatic. 2 Air horn. 3 Imp. 4 Rod. 6 Scapula. 7 Nip. 8 Syllables. 10 One’s due. 13 Air. 16 Ash. 17 Lie.

4d. Places to retire to . . . (11)

1d. Not a wall to knock down! (4-7)

1a. Where all the flexes are joined? (5,6)

14a. Took a firm grip of self (7)

5a. Connects with (5,2)

16a. Sincerity (11)

8d. Done on site (2-5)

6d. Immediate (7)