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 7 Consecrate bighead when smaller (5) 8 Give final, painful cry (5) 9 Use clatter to hide brilliance (5) 11 Incisive sort of note? (5) 12 Picture Clue 13 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue 2 Object words (but no buts!) (5) 3 Surface for air travellers? (5) 4 Picture Clue 5 Picture Clue 6 Picture Clue 10 To the point, in blockbuster sequel (5) 11 Went through water quietly to wetland (5)

4d. How to give it a bash? (5,1,5)

1d. Insects fighting to rut? (4,7)

5a. Stew with sting in tail? (7)

13a. Bash it out on the road? (6,5)

12a. Greer, say, is to the point (7)

6d. Hard, yet broken up in water (7)

5d. Goosey goosey (or gander!) (7)

1a. It’s forty, say? (6,5)