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 Understood to be an attic conversion (5) 7 Faulty flavour, say? (5) 9 Picture Clue 11 Back on board in the rafters (3) 12 Snake in and out of the raspberries (3) 13 Picture Clue 16 Bet either way with, say, a hawthorn one (5) 17 It’ll make sense — totally (3,2) 18 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue 2 Played the silly cadet (5) 3 Maybe by a holy house... (5) 4 Picture Clue 6 Picture Clue 8 Picture Clue 10 Easter gift? — bit of a beggar! (3) 14 Manipulative sort of employers? (5) 15 Finds out hares have got loose (5)

Yesterday’s solution ACROSS: 1 Be all ears. 5 Ire. 6 Lie. 7 Warm air. 10 Now. 11 Palaver. 12 Lot. 13 Far East. 16 Arc. 17 Ken. 18 Sentences. DOWN: 1 Below par. 2 Anew. 3 Exam. 4 Starvation. 5 Identifies. 8 Amass. 9 Airlocks. 14 Exit. 15 Talc.