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 Disparaging of Mother’s ruin (3) 6 Sit back and . . . it is! (However briefly) (3) 7 Picture Clue 10 The undesirable bit of a title (3) 11 Imperial sort of moth? (7) 12 Woebegone, in one’s inner self . . . (3) 13 Picture Clue 16 Broken knee, born of future union ads (3) 17 Printing units of gemstones (3) 18 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue 2 Push — out of furious temper . . . (4) 3 Right prophet, say, to depend on (4) 4 Picture Clue 5 Picture Clue 8 Concept that’s left, after ethical belief (5) 9 Picture Clue 14 Wind — sound like a dead bird? (4) 15 Ketone, not to be confused with joint (4)