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. SOLUTION ON MONDAY

ACROSS

1 Picture Clue 5 ‘Horsey’ bit of anagram? (3) 7 Better yet, bottled whiskey! (3)

8 Picture Clue

10 Flood tide to fall out of use (4,3)

11 Picture Clue

14 Now that’s the way to have it! (3) 15 Rent permit (3)

16 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue

2 Formerly live as a written test (4) 3 Donovan’s only a bit of a star? (4)

4 Picture Clue

6 Picture Clue 7 Picture Clue

9 I am in a flap about this rice dish! (5) 12 Give out when time’s up (4) 13 Magma, said to be in a bit of a palaver (4)

7d. Put on extra tags? Resign! (but don’t stop work) (7)

1d. Eclectic leaf portion forms clay building top (7,4)

4d. ‘Meet anon,’ as our eyelet is sewn up (3,3,5)

6d. Fishfinger he’s lost to weird mythical creature (7)

11a. Offer to cool Florence’s drink in the Arctic sea? (3,4)

16a. Would he/she educate a bench? (4,7)

8a. Map gear, wrongly used in riot (7)

1a. Correct labels with a capital start (6,5)