ACROSS

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. 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)