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 7 Fill with joy, but is it

virtually overdue? (5) 8 Carp has to go in to

local chippy (5) 9 Picture Clue 11 Picture Clue

14 Half the ice cream

that’s all musical? (5) 15 Spider crab, biting some

religious leader (5) 16 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue

2 Find out about clearing

bank backing off (5) 3 Before the real

reduction (3) 4 Picture Clue 5 Spaced out, but does not drunkenly play the fool (3,2)

6 Picture Clue 10 Picture Clue 12 Rubbery? It’s

dead on ten! (5) 13 Dumb rabbit hidden

in the shade (5) 15 Roentgen, the first to

discover fish eggs? (3)

16a. Intensely frustrate attempts to axe repeats in schedule (10)

4d. Actor Tracy keeps loose change in a jacket (7)

1d. Don’t be sorry for foe, ineptly struggling (4,2,4)

1a. Stellar fan upset by shamed actor (6,4)

6d. Plonk, Monsieur? For chef, winner of contest (6,4)

9a. Pinks cannot be grown for no-scrub piece (3-5,3)

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

10d. Tasty little treats from bird drills? (7)