PITCHERWITS TM

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 5 Picture Clue 9 Said to be educated, but stretched tight (4) 10 Trundle Ltd, out of alphabet character (4) 11 Place with a salty racecourse? (5) 12 Changes? None, it’s a gas! (4) 13 Informality expressed in fifths (4) 14 Picture Clue 16 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue 2 Males in the above-mentioned letters (3) 3 Adam blamed her in the evening (3) 4 Picture Clue 6 Picture Clue 7 Peru is a kind of lift, not stairs (5,2) 8 Picture Clue 14 Argument spread across the columns? (3) 15 Feel kind of like a large deer (3) Yesterday’s solution ACROSS: 1 Caricature. 5 Flywheel. 9 Auto. 10 Huff. 11 Irony. 12 Edit. 14 Into. 15 Lose hope. 18 Bright eyes. DOWN: 1 Cuban heel. 2 In for it. 3 Tow. 4 Ewe. 6 Yoko Ono. 7 Emu. 8 Lifeboats. 10 Hygiene. 13 Its. 16 Orb. 17 Hag.