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 Composition of mixed soup (4) 10 A bit of crisp, rye bread to be nimble! (4) 11 ‘Half-inched’ from little bird (5) 12 What if foolishness can cause an argument? (4) 14 Tearaway — with a tissue? (4) 15 Picture Clue 18 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue 2 Picture Clue 3 Brushed out that lady . . . (3) 4 Draw the neckwear . . . (3) 6 Opera ghost? (7) 7 Dance on the sink? (3) 8 Picture Clue 10 Picture Clue 13 Swimming aid (That’s fishy!) (3) 16 Molecule — out of condition? (3) 17 Bit of reassurance for the fool (3)

2d. Starts golf — without pm meal? (4,3)

1d. Act out aim of working all alone (9)

5a. Awaited in the exec. dept. (8)

1a. Over the hill (but not far away?) (1,3,4,2)

8d. Sly dancer oddly washes in chemicals (3,6)

18a. Dailies for media types (10)

15a. Conman, in fight over spice (8)

10d. Made visible, embarrassingly! (5,2)