PITCHERWITSTM

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 5 Picture Clue 8 Paddle your own, right and left (5) 9 In that place again for comfort (5) 10 Spotted like a score? (5) 12 Frighten nuisance caller away out of boredom! (5) 14 Picture Clue 15 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue 2 Freshly made from sinew, lying inside (5) 3 Mistake for cockney pad, reportedly (5) 4 Picture Clue 6 Picture Clue 7 Picture Clue 11 Stud, organising a bit of the house (5) 13 Drain works put at lowest point (5)

6d. Collected leaves, say? Maybe on par with duke! (5,2)

4d. Idealist, throwing glue on bonfire (5,6)

14a. Patchy fruit hemmed in by heads of department (7)

7d. Porridge, but not ‘stir’! (7)

15a. Curtsies, for no reason, for starters! (5,6)

5a. Diminished when donned behind the scenes? (4,3)

1a. Canoeing arm, used for silent film sounds? (6,5)

1d. ‘Shift over!’ job (8,3)