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 6 About the boy in rags (4) 7 Missing, say — that’s just sloppy! (3) 8 Job list in Croatia the CIA missed! (4) 9 Picture Clue 11 Picture Clue 14 Disperse raindrops, to reveal body fluids (4) 15 Puss, having bit of a panic attack (3) 16 One will, ‘tis said, have an old-fashioned Christmas (4) 17 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue 2 Picture Clue 3 Circle line’s not on Underground maps (5) 4 Airy one is kind of splashy, like as not (5) 5 Picture Clue 10 Picture Clue 12 Form of art we see in liquid (5) 13 Decoy puzzle has water rat (5)