PITCHERWITS

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

7 Inert sort of fertiliser (5) 8 That’s the fourth Greek I’ve seen at the river mouth! (5)

9 Picture Clue

11 Picture Clue

14 Reunion or not, it could

be the stuff of tedium! (5) 15 Religious sort of

cooker, say? (5)

16 Picture Clue DOWN 1 Picture Clue 2 It’s a measure of the game terminal culture (5)

3 Some jewellery that can

be a bit sheepish? (3)

4 Picture Clue

5 Little wise one, in

a folded towel (5) 6 Picture Clue

10 Picture Clue

12 How I long to mix

up ‘language’! (5) 13 Lie, or recline in

the window (5) 15 At first sight it’s

a tree (3)

1d. Bankers had a problem with ones to hold your motor! (10)

16a. See our lush conversion? It’s company regulations! (5,5)

9a. Ties calibre wrongly with way to keep feet on the ground! (2,9)

4d. How do libel mix-ups augur badly? (4,3)

10d. Goad is in a bad way for go-slow scores (7)

1a. Wallop from a lumpy sort of wind? (6,4)

6d. Social spots that are always at 12 noon? (3,7)

11a. ‘Ring a ring o’ roses’ total collapse? (3,4,4)