PITCHERWITS TM

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 Rudely greet white heron (5) 9 Weeds can be cooked as a root veg. (5) 10 Hydra, made to camouflage play (5) 12 Put in for cheap plywood inserts (5) 14 Picture Clue 15 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue 2 Iron — a pattern for live broadcasting (2,3) 3 Clue’s about satin edge — it’s relative (5) 4 Picture Clue 6 Picture Clue 7 Picture Clue 11 Slightly odd angle, being Heavenly (5) 13 Card game at the fireside? (5)

4d. Dry Sumerian recipe for tiny carer (7,4)

1d. Baseline — lad chewed the sweet! (7,4)

5a. Eastern form of Isaac, it seems (7)

1a. Magazine’s painful masonry? (5,6)

7d. Test the tea for being willed . . . (7)

15a. Delivery, ill-suited to chicken (4-7)

14a. Needs a search that’s matchless! (3,4)

6d. Rya isn’t ideal for places for post (2,5)