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.

ACRO SS

1 P icture Clue 5 P icture Clue 8 Either way, you can believe it ( 5) 9 Disposition needing UV protection? ( 5) 10 Urn, on reflection, can continue over ( 3-2) 12 Goodbye at last to Gallic types ( 5) 14 P icture Clue 15 P icture Clue

DO WN

1 P icture Clue 2 Continue to operate tail - in cart? ( 5) 3 Statesman is actually a wino, drunk ( 5) 4 P icture Clue 6 P icture Clue 7 P icture Clue 11 Ablution a lot less muddled in old N African country ( 5) 13 Skinhead hasn’t a clue about being tattooed ( 5)

ACRO SS

1 P icture Clue 5 Greek letter is a bit anthropomorphic ( 3) 6 Chorizo ( obviously chopped up for the menagerie!) ( 3) 7 P icture Clue 10 Time for some feral hunting ( 3) 11 Haemoglobin, long gone from Czech place ( 7) 12 Got a bit of a piece for a label ( 3) 13 P icture Clue 16 Renovation reveals eggs ( 3) 17 Decoy, ending up being shy ( 3) 18 P icture Clue

DO WN

1 P icture Clue 2 Cowsay ( what’s a cowsay?) should end undertone ( 4) 3 Estimate the thought ( 4) 4 P icture Clue 5 P icture Clue 8 Eyepiece of bad value ( 5) 9 P icture Clue 14 Weather phenomenon said to be the rule ( 4) 15 Deposit of ore could blow in after imp ( 4)

ACROSS: 1 Howling wind. 5 Glasgow. 8 Tenet. 9 Sunny. 10 Run-on. 12 Adieu. 14 Beatnik. 15 Small wonder. DOWN: 1 Heartbreaks. 2 Wagon. 3 Iowan. 4 Daisy cutter. 6 Antonia. 7 Gas main. 11 Nubia. 13 Inked. ACROSS: 1 Sometimes. 5 Phi. 6 Zoo. 7 Durable. 10 Era. 11 Bohemia. 12 Tab. 13 Overall. 16 Ova. 17 Coy. 18 Down there.

DOWN: 1 Sizeable. 2 Mood. 3 Idea. 4 Shrewsbury. 5 Paper round. 8 Uveal. 9 Boat race. 14 Rain. 15 Lode. CARTOONAGRAMS: INTER MILAN, HARLEY DAVIDSON. 30-SECOND CHALLENGE: Beginners: 31. Intermediate: 62. Advanced: 188. NAME GAME: NEIL FINN (1N, 2I, 3L, 4N, 5F, 6E, 7N, 8I).

QUICK QUIZ: 1 Southampton. 2 Spanish gold coin. 3 Seventieth. 4 Jens. 5 Osprey.

MINDBENDER: 1 Twenty-eight chocolate eggs. 2 They have all been resurrected. 3 Resurrection Sunday. 4 Weihnachtsstollen, a Christmas cake, the others are Easter cakes. 5 Egg, bunny, parade (A becomes E, B becomes F, etc).

1d. Large Elizabethans, but less than could be ( 8)

4d. Salopian place brushes out railway ( 10)

7a. Bad rule is strangely hard-wearing ( 7)

1a. O ccasionally, it can be a site for memos ( 9)

9d. O xford, Cambridge - involved in a row? ( 4,4)

18a. Cast who rented in the Antipodes? ( 4,5)

13a. Dungaree, in summary... ( 7)

5d. Test circular for adolescent job? ( 5,5)

15a. Can’t dwell on M ars. ( N o surprise there!) ( 5,6)

5a. Gag ‘slow’ movement in Scotland ( 7)

4d. Floral roller for the pitch? ( 5,6)

14a. Ken, taking the bait about non-conformist ( 7)

1d. Deep upsets from Elvis’ hotel? ( 11)

1a. N oisy sort of storm? ( 7,4)

7d. M ag’s in a muddle over supply line ( 3,4)

6d. Fraser’s her follower ( 7)