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 Dim, but only until

corrected (5)

8 The tedium of a common

or garden nuisance (5)

9 Picture Clue

11 Picture Clue

14 Desirably read off the work of an oracle (5)

15 Refute that tuber’s been put back (5)

16 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue

2 Old message system oddly exalted (but not in the ad!) (5)

3 Hit it off with with-it brainpower (3)

4 Picture Clue

5 Stern changes for collage artist (5)

6 Picture Clue

10 Picture Clue

12 A bit I broke in my shin (5)

13 Strange diet of a follower, showing what’s owing (5)

15 An old bit of cloth? That’s a tease! (3)

4d. Soundly beaten either way? (7)

10d. Bibles studied in the North with snacks (7)

16a. Sad fighter, maybe not myopic then? (3-7)

9a. Cox might ban the fracas of a punch-up (6,5)

1a. Twit to take on a gecko? Mad, but removed the batter (3,1,6)

6d. The brigade, reformed with a massive personal pump? (3-7)

1d. Unwashed quality of Big Ben transported to USSR (10)

11a. A bid to donate a sort of good plan (3,1,3,4)