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 Wear in retirement (4) 10 Against the freeze of the car? (4) 11 ‘Small wood’, say the police (5) 12 Box of Lego bits (4) 14 Care about this area? (4) 15 Picture Clue 18 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue 2 Picture Clue 3 Tuneful wind stuff? (3) 4 Feeling like a bit of a Conger...? (3) 6 Encourage within church edifice (7) 7 Wrongdoing is in the ending (3) 8 Picture Clue 10 Picture Clue 13 Dig embankment out of stone (3) 16 Dispose of torrid finale (3) 17 Emaciated piece of coat (3)