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 Expression of school. Period (4) 10 G, say, follower at speed? (4) 11 Willow — planted in hosiery section? (5) 12 Maniac identified as being a bit tart (4) 14 Grave place to end up! (4) 15 Picture Clue 18 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue 2 Picture Clue 3 Printing units of gemstones (3) 4 It’s kicking around in snow gear... (3) 6 Allowed to enter — secretly? (3,4) 7 Fire remains as a tree (not a bush) (3) 8 Picture Clue 10 Picture Clue 13 Half-ration? Just a particle! (3) 16 Painting, in boiling hot surroundings (3) 17 Acquire fringe to trim (3)

2d. Feeling indisposed to be grumpy (2,1,4)

1d. Lot of fables narrated superbly . . . (4,2,3)

5a. They say it’s in love — and war (4,4)

1a. Think it matters they’re grey? (5,5)

18a. Dickensian character — tell of lentil soup? (6,4)

15a. Absent ages ago — only short here (4,4)

10d. Oddly, in winter, I send a comment (5,2)

8d. Auk at cutting edge of legislation? (9)