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 Caviare, naturally produced in sports centre (5) 9 Sound of illusory icons (5) 10 ‘I’ doth make it a Hindu loincloth (5) 12 Act out diatomic pattern, in a manner of speaking (5) 14 Picture Clue 15 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue 2 Free verse yields thread (5) 3 Canned bovine — poison! (5) 4 Picture Clue 6 Picture Clue 7 Picture Clue 11 Led on deviously in these days (5) 13 Cylindrical part of unique Madagascan (5)

4d. Little consolation for the farm (4,7)

1d. This and that stuff (4,3,4)

5a. So now day and night are equal? (7)

1a. This way - keep feet on ground! (2,9)

15a. Weekend elbow, say? (6,5)

14a. Add structure to game that’s marred (7)

7d. Gents in a flap? Bird activity! (7)

6d. Metal symbolised by you, say (7)