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 6 It’s a copy, but a sound one (4) 7 Noise that goes on reducing

ad infinitum (3) 8 Annoy the mastiff

when sat apart (4) 9 Picture Clue 11 Picture Clue 14 Slight suggestion that

could be rather thin? (4) 15 Snood, not so worn as

to be a gesture (3) 16 Ogle disgracefully at

plastic bricks (4) 17 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue 2 Picture Clue 3 Put hoses in the

ones over there (5) 4 ‘Spoken’ lines in an air I’d just composed (5) 5 Picture Clue 10 Picture Clue 12 Doorstop at the Western boundary (5) 13 Bigwig looking in

snow quarters (5)

1d. Band that’s for big wasters, say? (10)

2d. Offer to cool Florence’s drink in the Arctic sea? (3,4)

10d. Not having hut two, I changed it (7)

17a. Outlived, on the basis of a power shift (10)

9a. Kiwi eels could be taken in the same way (8)

11a. Veg selling method, measured by the wig? (2,6)

5d. Appropriation could be innate, in an ox! (10)

1a. A cuter car I redrew in cartoon! (10)