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 on Monday.

ACROSS 1 Picture Clue 5 Flower club not on the left? (1,1,1) 7 Young one can deceive (3) 8 Picture Clue 10 Fat lot of use to cry! (7) 11 Picture Clue 14 So, a king hid in this tree . . . (3) 15 It used to be agony at first (3) 16 Picture Clue

DOWN 1 Picture Clue 2 High speed panache? (4) 3 It’s right, with money in SA (4) 4 Picture Clue 6 Picture Clue 7 Picture Clue 9 Set securely in, but be dim about it! (5) 12 ‘Clothes’ with thermal ratings (4) 13 Seep out from the boozer (4)

Yesterday’s solution ACROSS: 1 Flat-packed, 6 Near, 7 Ova, 8 Idle, 9 Forelegs, 11 Ballpark, 14 Each, 15 Ass, 16 Aeon, 17 Go to ground. DOWN: 1 Flying boat, 2 Tuneful, 3 Carve, 4 Elope, 5 Far-sighted, 10 Liken to, 12 Lasso, 13 Piano.

4d. Excited Rory curiously not in the book (2-9)

1d. Earthy LP that’s the fastest ever? (5,6)

8a. Anteater, all chained up (7)

1a. Criers would be sailing — globally (5,6)

16a. Chancellor’s bad headline? Yes! (5,6)

11a. Cud won’t be chewed to size, maybe? (3,4)

7d. Rank it a bad hurricane (7)

6d. Basket woven round reversal (7)