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 Give out from the right dimension (4) 10 Somehow, any turn can be current in China (4) 11 Inertia rarely produces top gear... (5) 12 Against the freeze of the car? (4) 13 Formic acid reduced to rock crystal (4) 14 Picture Clue 16 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue 2 Drippy, starting with extra time (3) 3 Frequently it’s a softer section (3) 4 Picture Clue 6 Picture Clue 7 Leaf tip withered in run-down cinema (7) 8 Picture Clue 14 Talking bull with a gibbous moon... (3) 15 Silence — from comics (3)

Yesterday’s solution — ACROSS: 1 Apple sauce, 5 Bulletin, 9 Onto, 10 Stew, 11 Ratio, 12 Mess, 14 Emir, 15 Cares for, 18 Bad company. DOWN: 1 Autonomic, 2 Labours, 3 All, 4 Eli, 6 Left off, 7 Tot, 8 New Jersey, 10 Sober up, 13 Sir, 16 AOB, 17 Sic.