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 Piece of Spode to hold peas (3) 7 So bad it could start to make you weep (3) 8 Picture Clue 10 Leopard escaped, being released (7) 11 Picture Clue 14 Syphoning off diesel fuel? That’s the spirit! (3) 15 Spider’s work in www. (3) 16 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue 2 Pane broken above shoulder blades (4) 3 You used to be in a hothouse (4) 4 Picture Clue 6 Picture Clue 7 Picture Clue 9 Jeers at Tory leader can actually

encourage (5) 12 Use a pen (allegedly as one of passage) (4) 13 Push — out of furious temper (4) Yesterday’s solution — ACROSS: 1 Gun control. 6 Roar. 7 Fro. 8 Nova. 9 Bow Bells. 11 Bone cell. 14 Idle. 15 Cob. 16 Rasp. 17 Abstinence. DOWN: 1 Glance back. 2 Curable. 3 Throb. 4 Offal. 5 Horse sense. 10 Ellipse. 12 Nabob. 13 Caret.