PITCHERWITS

PIT your witsit againstit PPitcherwits — 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 7 Put out by command to employ (5) 8 Getting refrigerator from frigate is a mistake (5) 9 Picture Clue 11 Picture Clue 14 Stretching component of heat-seeking missile (5) 15 Pelt around me? Backbone! (5) 16 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue 2 Hug so interpreted as to be Wind in the Willows? (5) 3 Viewed from inside, she’s a woolly one (3) 4 Picture Clue 5 Clouds said to be apple-speak? (5) 6 Picture Clue 10 Picture Clue 12 Much wintrier when I oversaw rice cookery (5) 13 Tip me over to score the speeds (5) 15 Farmer is halfway distant (3)

4d. Feet, to be a strange drink of cows? (4,3)

1d. Who is the mail for? (10)

9a. Said to be a tiring outlet for cars? (7,4)

1a. Retort (not glass) — insolent! (6,4)

16a. Brotherhood to try a fine art approach (10)

10d. Highly strung — with vertical tension? (7)

11a. Potato disks cooked with a screech? (4,2,1,4)

6d. Political veggie do? (5,5)