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 Fraud I ought to make out as sound (5) 8 Picture Clue 11 Wilt should end by taking the poor back (5) 13 Eve is back in front of the strainer (5) 14 Picture Clue 16 Live at happy walking location (2,3) 18 Picture Clue

DOWN

2 Downtrodden and a bit peculiar (3) 3 Picture Clue 4 Knot of coral? (4) 5 Picture Clue 6 Picture Clue 9 Picture Clue 10 Seep — a brief question of ownership? (4) 12 She’s in goal (sort of) (4) 15 Now is perhaps the place for a slight person (4) 17 Left in main road was great boxer (3)

5d. Dog Star could be a weedy one (10)

3d. Pip below messing with dart gun (8)

8a. With which to tread the internet? (7)

1a. Patient, but not necessarily NHS (10)

18a. Seeing briefly — from a height? (8,2)

14a. Is it a problem to a marine gardner? (7)

9d. Grinds to a halt — in vertical meres? (4,4)

6d. ‘Rustic room’ is a posh version! (6,4)