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

6 Tiny bit comes

9th in Greece (4)

7 Fuss about the

year zero? (3)

8 Fear nothing of merit (4) 9 Picture Clue

11 Picture Clue

14 Mollusc gripped by

Atlantic lamprey (4) 15 Snubbed a bit in

the centre (3)

16 Earplug? Listen, it’s

just a bit of fruit! (4) 17 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue

2 Picture Clue

3 Make self-conscious

at a ‘party’? (5)

4 Find out, when left to get some money (5) 5 Picture Clue

10 Picture Clue

12 Forbidden boat repair comes to nothing (5) 13 Objectively, we hoe around the building (5)

2d. Mennonite not on collision course to be distinguished (7)

1d. Forerunner can be in détente, perhaps (10)

17a. Envisioning fee being set according to regions (10)

1a. Can be valued, as baseless as it may be (10)

5d. Return of the ‘inch’ memo, to go haywire (10)

9a. Former alteration not robbery when fair (8)

11a. Edit shot out before you cross the t’s (3,3,2)

10d. Cut off by scabies outbreak (7)