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

5 Picture Clue

9 Bit naive to hold

back against (4)

10 Brat needs correction to

be useful on ski lift (1-3)

11 Headgear, in absentia,

ranked in the middle (5) 12 Land mass in the middle of church, say (4) 13 Club, located in a group of countries (4) 14 Picture Clue

16 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue

2 Anger, coming across as ultimately doctrinaire (3)

3 At last! Allowed

to be married (3)

4 Picture Clue

6 Picture Clue 7 Proceed with

money up front? (7) 8 Picture Clue

14 Ruin the marrow by chopping it in half! (3)

15 It’s mid-way

stupid! (3)

8d. Glue, coming unstuck from league table, can be chewed (7)

16a. Weird romancer, held in awe as a dedicated working lady (6,5)

1a. Transparency device? How wise to redeploy and deliver! (5,6)

1d. Leaning to the left, is it recreation with calicos? (11)

14a. Spotted from day one to be wealthy (7)

6d. Quote is mis-quoted? Exactly! (5,2)

4d. Sabotage, in order to cite postal service (11)

5a. Matched as adequate, but not with a plan (7)