PITCHERWITS TM

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 Call a man about a little woolly camel (5) 8 Picture Clue 11 About ammo fired back at punctuation (5) 13 Water-rat has PC you build yourself (5) 14 Picture Clue 16 Meat slice — for fencers? (5) 18 Picture Clue

DOWN

2 Hungry animal bit the rug (3) 3 Picture Clue 4 How fans went — for squirrels? (4) 5 Picture Clue 6 Picture Clue 9 Picture Clue 10 Think you can find it in the dark? (4) 12 Complain to man about nothing (4) 15 Dish list supplied by home number (4) 17 Age of paper aeroplanes? (3)

Yesterday’s solution ACROSS: 1 Beyond doubt. 5 Unfit. 7 Idiom. 9 Endorse. 11 Ill. 12 Ago. 13 Hamburg. 16 Otter. 17 Pasha. 18 Firing range. DOWN: 1 Brushing off. 2 Noted. 3 Drier. 4 Time to spare. 6 Feel hot. 8 Ice ages. 10 Orb. 14 Moron. 15 Upper.

3d. Egalitarianism less a single type of drink! (3,5)

8a. Enormous amount I am shortly to have (7)

1a. Mix with entire RAF’s components (10)

9d. Follows logically from vertical chimneys? (6,2)

18a. Mad gold pan run gives layout (6,4)

14a. Country lair has stain (7)

6d. Locking bad up for obstructing (10)

5d. Quilted fliers? (5,5)