PITCHERWITS TM

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 Log the growth of a Northern tree (5) 9 I had, I told you,

a duck! (5) 10 Militia, rakish

in headgear! (5) 12 Redirected, then

dried off construct (5) 14 Picture Clue 15 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue 2 Itemised composer? (5) 3 Return from a foreign deli at the day’s end (5) 4 Picture Clue 6 Picture Clue 7 Picture Clue 11 Express your intention in a shopping corridor (5) 13 She figures on a novel

enamel brooch (5)

4d. Sustaining hostilities from a winding, cranked taut (5,6)

1d. Neat bracket that’s become a path welltrod (6,5)

6d. Tear ran right the way round: it could tell a story! (7)

15a. Restraining big keen pack of assorted characters (7,4)

14a. Dapple with spots, and seek investment in plc (7)

1a. Well done? Our buy? Folly to distribute! (5,3,3)

7d. Knew EEC couldn’t work for scraggy nag? (3-4)

5a. Nieces are right about being genuine (7)