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.

ACROSS

1 Picture Clue

6 Alternative hotel,

set apart (4)

7 Churchyard tree mentioned in address? (3)

8 Goat, bred to look like

an old garment (4)

9 Picture Clue

11 Picture Clue

14 Swear at a mad rave (4) 15 It’s to chew over, in its

crudest, restless state (3) 16 Big story from a

little picture (4)

17 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue

2 Picture Clue

3 Pinch a model that has feeble backing (5)

4 Motherly, but a lot less strange in verse (5) 5 Picture Clue

10 Picture Clue

12 Cowboy ‘fest’ for artless toreador in trouble (5) 13 Fearsome

locks? (5)

SOLUTION TOMORROW

11a. You could find an opening in farming here (4,4)

5d. Leap ecstatically towards born free lady? (4,3,3)

1a. Actress, to opt carefully for some with sporting vision (10)

17a. Stay constant even when hosted by Lady Strange (4,6)

10d. Take from emir a clear break for a wonder (7)

9a. Give us a lift? What a tonic! (4-2-2)

1d. Batch of wicks burnt out on the roller-coaster (10)

2d. Devalue headache? A pensive piece (7)