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 More, from a complex trace (5) 8 Picture Clue 11 Tsk! said to be indented? (5) 13 Currency we’ll reject or use badly (5) 14 Picture Clue 16 Annie — she could be mindless! (5) 18 Picture Clue

DOWN

2 Hazel (say) bolted at times (3) 3 Picture Clue 4 It’s you back, then? (4) 5 Picture Clue 6 Picture Clue 9 Picture Clue 10 Goad as a sideline (4) 12 Go back to the French to leer (4) 15 It’s not for a tin building... (4) 17 Top Gun, in peaceful surroundings (3)

5d. Passes prime — for propagators? (4,2,4)

3d. Agreed in this place — twice, say (4,4)

1a. Captivating the canning process (10)

18a. Cooker with dual personality? (5-5)

14a. Retains a kind of tallow stuff (7)

9d. Half river to whole at Khartoum (4,4)

6d. Theresa has ugly blotches (4,6)

8a. Prof’s puzzles! (7)