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 Spat that’s about to control the flow? (4)

10 Lose appeal?

Quiet, everyone! (4)

11 Roots need doing, for one’s middle! (5)

12 Avon’s a star, right? (4) 13 Bog plant to

go fast? (4)

14 Picture Clue

16 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue

2 Computer that’s

too big to eat? (3) 3 Invalid ending

on top (3)

4 Picture Clue

6 Picture Clue 7 Bad fruit? Go

to twos! (4,3)

8 Picture Clue

14 Knight, addressed

in Dies Irae (3)

15 That man’s from the British Isles (3)

16a. Aerosol left to deteriorate in plain sight (3,3,2,3)

1d. Racing away from the range? (8,3)

14a. Shelf is all about thinking of one (7)

6d. Risked, at the end of the fence? (2,5)

4d. Cheque made out to ‘Canal 50-50’ (5,6)

1a. See lonesome characters in a fog as another person (7,4)

5a. Canvas sleeper that’s about a current degree (4,3)

8d. Do they go out as former spirits? (7)