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 Picture Clue 9 Said to swerve, but it belongs to one (4) 10 Three of them involved in patriotic duties... (4) 11 Mistake to follow trial... (5) 12 Horn, but back to a base (4) 14 Broke pane at low tide (4) 15 Picture Clue 18 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue 2 Picture Clue 3 Bit of a low-level night flyer (3) 4 Tart in your earpiece (3) 6 Fair old mess — what a state! (7) 7 Short thanks you’ll hear for bitumen! (3) 8 Picture Clue 10 Picture Clue 13 Crab oarsman caught — with a snake! (3) 16 Drain away from web browser (3) 17 Swap player on way up to transport (3) Yesterday’s solution ACROSS: 1 Crystal ball. 5 Washtub. 7 Trite. 8 Nitre. 9 Reeve. 11 Krona. 12 Pitiful. 13 Legal jargon. DOWN: 1 Counterfoil. 2 Taste. 3 Latin. 4 Loose cannon. 5 Write up. 6 Bath oil. 10 Extol. 11 Kafka.