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 tomorrow.

ACROSS

1 Picture Clue 5 Put hoses in the ones over there (5) 7 Yankee nut that Europe cannot have (5) 9 Picture Clue 11 Core from the bun, right? (3) 12 Prefix for the real expert (3) 13 Picture Clue 16 Fruity, but duff car? (5) 17 Solidly, but not so as to be a rural poem (5) 18 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue 2 Upset (near a stadium) (5) 3 Test piece, initially said to be a tent (5) 4 Picture Clue 6 Picture Clue 8 Picture Clue 10 What the man of the cloth could do to his motor? (3) 14 Boredom of reunion (or not, maybe?) (5) 15 Soaping, but not so as to be copying (5)

Yesterday’s solution ACROSS: 1 Baby grand. 5 Aha. 6 Can. 7 Kon-Tiki. 10 Ems. 11 Erratic. 12 Lit. 13 Ratchet. 16 Add. 17 Eve. 18 Dog-legged. DOWN: 1 Back-seat. 2 Bunk. 3 Riot. 4 Debilitate. 5 Access road. 8 Orate. 9 Included. 14 Cell. 15 Tang.