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 6 Block of experimental labs (4) 7 Bit audacious? Could be to your credit (1,1,1) 8 Nothing the North has to answer for . . . (4) 9 Picture Clue 11 Picture Clue 14 Currently in Mexico, but not much to pose about (4) 15 Record of a sound sleep? (3) 16 What a plane does for a cab? (4) 17 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue 2 Picture Clue 3 A bit I broke in my shin (5) 4 ‘I bail out’ — what an excuse! (5) 5 Picture Clue 10 Picture Clue 12 Preyer seen in sea gleam (5) 13 Carp has the answer for local chippy (5)

11a. Made more muscly for a non-vegetarian? (6,2)

2d. Finish knitting the old garment? (4,3)

1d. Tell this sphere, ‘You’re fired!’? (6,4)

5d. Massive benefit of being an upright foe (4,6)

9a. Ignores a plan to sort out (8)

1a. Insect flyer used in Test Matches (7,3)

17a. Supporting claim of wheel dismantled? (7,3)

10d. How to be caught — on a pool table? (7)