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 on Monday.

ACROSS

1 Picture Clue 7 Suggest you trim plywood a little (5) 8 Picture Clue 11 Oak, as grown in Japan (5) 13 Not reacting to interchange (5) 14 Picture Clue 16 ‘How I am stuck,’ I exclaim! (2,3) 18 Picture Clue

DOWN

2 Trapped in blame (3) 3 Picture Clue 4 State of a hut that’s collapsed (4) 5 Picture Clue 6 Picture Clue 9 Picture Clue 10 ‘Hello’ — greeting which contains a monster (4) 12 Mikado, without identity, goes crazy (4) 15 Moat dug out for little one (4) 17 Talk about fuel going down . . . (3)