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 7 Decree that is cited somehow (5) 8 Record points to crazy storyline Nero omitted (5) 9 Picture Clue 11 Picture Clue 14 She’s got the lad in trouble! (5) 15 Goodbye. (At last!) (5) 16 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue 2 Could end up loathing from the podium (5) 3 Magnetic part of the trap (3) 4 Picture Clue 5 PC you configure for . . . a rodent! (5) 6 Picture Clue 10 Picture Clue 12 Divine food at the big old house, say (5) 13 Surveying? Not sure? It could be competing! (5) 15 You exist, according to your last letter, so to speak (3)

4d. Separates into groups, with SOS for the arts! (7)

1a. Bouncer saw problems in the flavouring (5,5)

16a. Blag false degree showing your knees? (10)

1d. Beetle off to find fact about cows (4,6)

9a. Emerge, and survive to tell the tale (4,7)

11a. Moves butler out, yet falls down (7,4)

10d. Cultivation — make it legal (7)

6d. No drug induced high could be moral (4,6)