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 Lived as a bit of a swashbuckler (3) 7 Searching all approaches for an answer (3) 8 Picture Clue 10 Cram the problem into a return fixture (7) 11 Picture Clue 14 It’s from GM DNA, as well! (3) 15 Deer heard at the start of the scale (3) 16 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue 2 Inform if no usual pattern (4) 3 Grub said to be a piece of magma (4) 4 Picture Clue 6 Picture Clue 7 Picture Clue 9 La Paz, with its own sort of cinema (5) 12 Fare-dodger has to make it again (4) 13 About the boy in rags (4)

1d. Discouraged: thwarted on a problem (4,2,5)

4d. Door resized to make smell-checkers (11)

11a. Partly fear a cheque... what a pain! (7)

6d. Went round troubled kid at rest (7)

7d. Take account of deep haymaking (3,4)

16a. Most hurdled become dead calm (3,8)

8a. Uganda’s growing palm (aka Arecaceae) (7)

1a. Not at all keen to be on the level? (11)