PITCHERWITS™

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 Either way, it’s a help for careless eaters (3)

7 First Lady in several places at once! (3)

8 Picture Clue

10 Tore the rib off a circling one (7)

11 Picture Clue

14 Appreciative of crystal formed out the back (3)

15 Where Bishop sits, understand? (3)

16 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue

2 Giro attributed initially to Sikorsky (4)

3 Old ship with a horn? (4)

4 Picture Clue

6 Picture Clue

7 Picture Clue

9 Take in what the man overboard went into (5)

12 Aaron’s problem golden baby to leg it a bit? (4)

13 Motorcade with its own whale (4)

1d. Where to park your toothpaste at Earl’s Court, say? (4,7)

6d. Cry that could be of/with some physical compulsion (2,5)

7d. Modem pressure can be reduced for Mrs ‘Emperor’ (7)

1a. It could be the mightiest schedule when it’s short (4,2,5)

11a. Flying freeloaders, put by cooks into copper pan (7)

4d. Greets, and tells about table supporters (7,4)

16a. Feels NHS was shortchanged in quick reports (11)

8a. Spar, to the extreme, but within my radar (7)