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 Sea-going canoe (5) 8 Oddly, Somalia is out of Texan battle (5) 9 Picture Clue 11 Picture Clue 14 Edward isn’t here? Spotted! (5) 15 Spider crab, biting some religious leader (5) 16 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue 2 Representative — bit of a nice guy? (5) 3 Tiny one, out of condition? (3) 4 Picture Clue 5 State claim to have had garden tool (5) 6 Picture Clue 10 Picture Clue 12 Relative proportions of administration (5) 13 Forbidden the ‘OO’ label, initially (5) 15 Starting to rid a town of vermin (3)

Friday’s solution ACROSS: 1 Make it stick. 5 Roe. 7 Ivy. 8 Share in. 10 Atomise. 11 Exhaust. 14 The. 15 Sat. 16 Holy Trinity. DOWN: 1 Mere scratch. 2 Idea. 3 Shoe. 4 Key industry. 6 Escapee. 7 Invents. 9 Rumba. 12 Hurt. 13 Ugli.