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 Doggy hunter with a devilish laugh? (5) 9 Flower? Lots around you, in short! (5) 10 Yearn to carve out (5) 12 Clumsy changeover gone green — what chaos! (5) 14 Picture Clue 15 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue 2 Gravity barely conceals slight push (5) 3 Net is cast for the inside picture (5) 4 Picture Clue 6 Picture Clue 7 Picture Clue 11 Boarish, but is not set out to hate (5) 13 Servo appearing on left hand page (5) Yesterday’s solution ACROSS: 1 Absolutism. 7 Copra. 8 Outdo. 9 Drawing room. 11 Non-partisan. 14 Alibi. 15 Zaire. 16 Head porter. DOWN: 1 Accidental. 2 Sepia. 3 Lea. 4 Thought. 5 Set-to. 6 Commandeer. 10 In a bind. 12 Naive. 13 Saint. 15 Zoo.