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 Festivity that’s held in

cooking a la mode (4) 7 Neither is it in order

to extract it (3)

8 Pencilled in a

good reward (4)

9 Picture Clue

11 Picture Clue

14 Avon’s a star, right? (4) 15 Drain that’s

pebble-dashed (3)

16 Women’s lib identified

in the same place (4) 17 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue

2 Picture Clue

3 Happy to join sweetheart

in the clearing (5)

4 If the gun went off, there’d be mushrooms! (5)

5 Picture Clue

10 Picture Clue

12 Literati, biased

about a bone (5) 13 Stretching as far as possible, and seeking to finish (5)

11a. How to make the tea shine, where the salty swimmers are (2,3,3)

10d. Get ready to fight with tons? A tad frenetic! (5,2)

17a. Be about to give a hand on a rug perhaps? (4,6)

9a. Had a problem with noise? Sticky stuff! (8)

1d. Takes away the smell of bewildering, odd soirees (10)

1a. Getting away quickly, but removing hyphens? (7,3)

5d. Gaul who daren’t refine the sugar? (10)

2d. What, clean the pig? Oh rubbish! (7)