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

9 Don’t open with a preposition! (4) 10 First light on which one realises (4)

11 Wire wrapped around

a model pen (5)

12 Hexameter that’s

cut from the test (4) 13 Aeneas left her, because she achieved nothing? (4) 14 Picture Clue

16 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue

2 By way of

abbreviated piece (3) 3 Uncle could fall off his unicycle when it’s freezing! (3)

4 Picture Clue

6 Picture Clue 7 Glad ones coming from the angels? Great joy? (7)

8 Picture Clue

14 Bird can’t fly, but it can

cut the mustard! (3)

15 Wipe water from a part of the service parking (3)

14a. Where to come to a halt, when difficult to spend (3,4)

4d. Hat for a devil of a speedy pitcher? (not -wits!) (5,6)

16a. Market gardener discovering tiger in furrow (5,6)

1d. Is this an impossibly careless thing to do? (4,7)

8d. Increased when out on an odd date (5,2)

6d. Cool fellas suggested by omens in the top left? (7)

1a. Romance in a curtain? (Ain’t it just?) (4,2,5)

5a. ‘But, say, it’s a dump?’ (7)