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 Roe is best cooked over willow (5) 9 Manuscript of a fool, I suspect (5) 10 It’s blue, as you’re saying (5) 12 Inanimate interchange (5) 14 Picture Clue 15 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue 2 Turn round to hiss at Japanese food (5) 3 Ring of little Eleanor’s call (5) 4 Picture Clue 6 Picture Clue 7 Picture Clue 11 Brush, erroneously used by doorkeeper (5) 13 Comfort station at second class stand (5)

4d. Humbler sort of tofu, as a rough guide (4,2,5)

1d. Timeworn can be used to describe ’80s Pop! (3,8)

5a. Uses pop — perhaps as a guess (7)

1a. Orkney pears recipe for meddlesome one (5,6)

15a. Troll can damage cub at Old Tory meet (7,4)

14a. Two hens, laying at the very latest (3,4)

7d. Disaffection from antic could be goal stopper (7)

6d. As a proportion, it’s over a ‘ton’! (7)