PITCHERWITSTM

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 9 Austria? It’s back from the atmosphere (4) 10 Tackle one’s terrible rage (4) 11 A certain diamond, coming from Asian republic (5) 12 Unable to produce pious platitude? (4) 13 Powder, in crystalcoated form (4) 14 Picture Clue 16 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue 2 Obsessive one, bolted sometimes? (3) 3 Poetic piece that’s to pay, say (3) 4 Picture Clue 6 Picture Clue 7 Rode to a placement that’s overpriced (3,4) 8 Picture Clue 14 End of the passage of time? (3) 15 Somewhat intimidating, backward and not very bright (3)

16a. Hermit who hadn’t appeared in one of Graham Greene’s (3,5,3)

4d. General idea of a botanist driving a battered car (11)

5a. Touchy about latticework (7)

1d. Cleopatra, quite taken up with judicial place (6,5)

1a. Dancer with a bit of an eponymous pudding? (4,7)

6d. Looked forward to data I/we processed (7)

8d. Beneficiary involved in ‘Eelgate’! (7)

14a. Decorated list read out by the don (7)