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 Grid one made to be inflexible (5) 7 General meaning of mine (5) 9 Picture Clue 11 I’m a bit categorical in this... (3) 12 Wise one wearing a bowler (3) 13 Picture Clue 16 Death, destruction - much loathed (5) 17 Grasp a standard piece of spaghetti, say (5) 18 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue 2 Singing style of happy ode, left out (5) 3 Dialogue, when legless, poses problems for hearing (5) 4 Picture Clue 6 Picture Clue 8 Picture Clue 10 Web browser’s a bit of a drain (3) 14 At the end of term, over the throw of a dice, Doctor (5) 15 Plaza, built in Bolivia’s capital (2,3)