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 There’s a curve in

this hierarchy (3) 7 Buddy, in appalling circumstances (3) 8 Picture Clue 10 Postman - delivering what the letter needs (5,2) 11 Picture Clue 14 Stomach problem in dribs and drabs (1,1,1) 15 Fool of the Beaker

People? (3) 16 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue 2 Least alcoholic part of powder (4) 3 Beige cure, but crude (4) 4 Picture Clue 6 Picture Clue 7 Picture Clue 9 Machine-loom, phased out, giving local energy (5) 12 Psychologist finally

has the theme (4) 13 Strange tale of a duck (not from you, Miss Potter) (4)