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

5 Picture clue

8 Loner must reform to register (5)

9 Royal pop group? (5)

10 In a mainframe, it’s sort of red (5)

12 Florida homes — in such a state! (5)

14 Picture clue

15 Picture clue

DOWN

1 Picture clue

2 Advisory day out to be looked through (5)

3 Unease, without a pattern to follow (5)

4 Picture clue

6 Picture clue

7 Picture clue

11 If gun went off, there’d be mushrooms (5)

13 A duo I made into visual accompaniment (5)

Yesterday’s solution

ACROSS:

1 Fallen star.

7 Yucca. 8 Arise.

9 Radio aerial.

11 High fashion.

14 Drape.

15 Adapt.

16 Corked wine.

DOWN:

1 Fly orchids.

2 Lucid.

3 Era.

4 Stamens.

5 Alibi.

6 Heel-and-toe.

10 Off-peak.

12 Guano.

13 Iraqi.

15 Aid.