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 Coaster in formatted setting (3) 7 Some in company . . . finally! (3) 8 Picture Clue 10 He crosses the gap? Useful for nuts! (7) 11 Picture Clue 14 Tool lost in brawling (3) 15 Digit to be hit for? (3) 16 Picture Clue DOWN 1 Picture Clue 2 Sort of accountant’s patch? (4) 3 Sucker said to escape (4) 4 Picture Clue 6 Picture Clue 7 Picture Clue 9 Two, from whodunit, oddly religious (5) 12 North or South, is it an earth rod? (4) 13 Larva said to be popular food (4) Yesterday’s solution — ACROSS: 1 Cardsharps. 6 Lamb. 7 Spa. 8 Taxi. 9 Low rates. 11 Emphasis. 14 Alms. 15 Era. 16 Levy. 17 Bombardier. DOWN: 1 Cantilever. 2 Delilah. 3 Amber. 4 Posit. 5 Cause a stir. 10 Assayed. 12 Piano. 13 Ad-lib.

4d. If lynxes lost in fog, they must be bats! (6,5)

1d. Firework — very flash for Rolling Stones (7,4)

8a. Standoffish, so sits out — being rude (7)

1a. A roasting from the butcher? (5,2,4)

16a. Vegetables sneaked by in the confusion (6,5)

11a. Disputes the truth of, and nips gum painfully (7)

7d. Sad Red to point to home finder (7)

6d. Pilot, so distressed by surface stuff (7)