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 on Monday.

ACROSS

1 Picture Clue 5 Fish eggs in the throes of being peeled (3) 7 Said to be Latin for Holly’s partner (3) 8 Picture Clue 10 A mite so confused as to spray (7) 11 Picture Clue 14 It’s an article (and that’s definite!) (3) 15 Parked — for a short weekend! (3) 16 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue 2 Concept claiming to be expensive? (4) 3 Footwear to drive away with, say? (4) 4 Picture Clue 6 Picture Clue 7 Picture Clue 9 Conundrum back in the dance (5) 12 Pain of actor John (4) 13 Litterbug — ends in fruit (4)

1d. Just a graze — to make them scarcer (4,7)

1a. Use glue when charging offender? (4,2,5)

16a. Try oily hint at making believers’ Trio (4,7)

4d. Skye, to turn DIY into crucial trade (3,8)

8a. Be part of hernia’s treatment (5,2)

6d. See Pace as being the one that got away (7)

11a. Gases to wear out? (7)

7d. Fabricates five tennis matches (7)