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 9 Limited ammunition — it’s what the Romans said they loved (4) 10 Heard you were that blue when alone (4) 11 ‘Leak out slowly,’ (so says the sucker) (5) 12 Sound, sound system (2-2) 13 Austrian isn’t without a kind of atmosphere (4) 14 Picture Clue 16 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue 2 Looked up — and lived! (3) 3 Drawn-out grass bristle (3) 4 Picture Clue 6 Picture Clue 7 Set down partly (not at Edgware) (7) 8 Picture Clue 14 Paderewski ends with a glide (3) 15 Do good (at first) to hound (3)

14a. Where flowers can start, without flowing (7)

4d. Ocular retribution? (3,3,2,3)

1d. Treason charging — by empathic men? (11)

5a. Registers to commit sins with gin? (5,2)

1a. Chance I wish to take then (2,5,4)

16a. Pug, true to life, for musical three? (6,5)

8d. The pains he took to get fit! (2,5)

6d. Doilies set out for worship (7)