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

7 Decree that is

cited somehow (5) 8 Subaverage beers taken off the brew for fruit (5)

9 Picture Clue

11 Picture Clue

14 Token nuisance has some boredom in it (5)

15 Don’t sue the superior, he’s the abbot’s sidekick! (5) 16 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue

2 Omit the bad,

idle way (5)

3 Rent from

eligible types? (3) 4 Picture Clue

5 Clever sting? (5) 6 Picture Clue

10 Picture Clue

12 An unorthodox tango

in Polynesia? (5)

13 Rust the poor ox

could die with? (5)

15 Grip a yoyo in the

middle for wages (3)

4d. Ran out of scrambled eggs for the badgering sort (7)

6d. Cared for by humans, the darned hare went feral! (4-6)

9a. Recreated fist, deleted when checked on the job (5-6)

1a. Weak quality of beef backed by varifocal lenses (10)

10d. His kid had a problem with a shirt! (7)

16a. A muff to yield a kind of stupid civil war! (6,4)

1d. Lie in fretful, troubled state, for a clean-burn engine? (4,6)

11a. Telecasts, or transmission, for match status (6,5)