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 TOMORROW

ACROSS

1 Picture Clue

7 The sort of fit Scrooge would be? (5)

8 Expositor, say, could be overt (5)

9 Picture Clue

11 Picture Clue

14 Not an annular breakage in the module (5)

15 Taxi, all stripped down and rotational (5)

16 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue

2 Power that’s tiny, allegedly (5)

3 Berate insect for leaving rodent (3)

4 Picture Clue

5 Gel to be applied to release (3,2)

6 Picture Clue

10 Picture Clue

12 She’s got the lad in trouble! (5)

13 Untie so as to achieve the opposite! (5)

15 Bristle pulled out from the lawnmower (3)

1d. Tramp all over Natal to find a tree for a basket case? (6,4)

16a. Fee granted in retrospect for summertime bash (6,4)

4d. Distributor of tips drives a hard bargain (7)

11a. Recover plot to hug then hurl away (4,7)

6d. Colour of the Ultra Marines? (6,4)

10d. Finished work so went to bed (7)

9a. Artisans rob the subtlety of Cooper-Gaga film (1,4,2,4)

1a. How to make barrel into something amazing (10)