PITCHERWITS TM

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 Label, on account of the restaurant (3) 7 Create some to take in . . . (3) 8 Picture Clue 10 Gulped concoction at gig on Weds. (7) 11 Picture Clue 14 Pin back the tuck, mate! (3) 15 Obtained duvet rating, right? (3) 16 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue 2 Least alcoholic part of powder (4) 3 Old villain, reputedly in church (4) 4 Picture Clue 6 Picture Clue 7 Picture Clue 9 Reasoning I found in clog dancing! (5) 12 Dotty letter from Greece? (4) 13 Colour, say, took meaning from script (4) Yesterday’s solution. ACROSS: 1 Bus shelter. 6 Ibis. 7 Ate. 8 Reef. 9 Flysheet. 11 Midnight. 14 Liar. 15 Nay. 16 Wide. 17 Brings down. DOWN: 1 Bear in mind. 2 Stiffen. 3 Lists. 4 Evade. 5 Weatherman. 10 Hot lead. 12 Dryer. 13 Iowan.

1d. Christmas roast? Could be a touch of ‘tenths’ (3,8)

1a. Champ, to wink around a bit of Richmond (7,4)

4d. Teen caught in tangled thicket in galley (11)

8a. Not very lucid stuff about an ulcer (7)

16a. Tinted media for no man waiters (4,3,4)

11a. 15th, in Greek, O little one! (7)

7d. Fatally ignored the wearing away (7)

6d. Awkward boss put at pick-up point (3,4)