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 Concoct ether-based eightsome (5) 9 Aquinas — not an orderly semi-! (5) 10 Allude to preference with no small change (5) 12 Patriarch — first gravity man? (5) 14 Picture Clue 15 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue 2 Review of first audition (5) 3 Way beyond some tasteful trainers (5) 4 Picture Clue 6 Picture Clue 7 Picture Clue 11 Disgusted, but not at all hungry (3,2) 13 Fraud I ought to put out as sound (5) Yesterday’s solution — ACROSS: 1 Department. 7 Aloud. 8 Yemen. 9 Slow learner. 11 Beaufort Sea. 14 Outdo. 15 Youth. 16 Epitomises. DOWN: 1 Deals a blow. 2 Photo. 3 Red. 4 Mayfair. 5 No man. 6 Encroaches. 10 Left out. 12 Act up. 13 Souls. 15 Yam.

4d. Keep back in money order, say? (4,2,5)

1d. Oath, not a curse Dr.! (11)

5a. Shake duster, with end-of-term kit (4,3)

1a. Guffaw at hare donning ugly hat (6,5)

15a. Aussie visitor — one to be a head chef? (7,4)

14a. Abandoned on OS maps (7)

7d. Questions not to become sparklies (7)

6d. Trouser ends altered for positive changes? (7)