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 tomorrow.

ACROSS

1 Picture Clue 5 Cold reaction, say, to rough edge (3) 6 Tree growing in crash helmet (3) 7 Picture Clue 10 It’s sort of in Ilkeston (3) 11 Cold-blooded, but within each one of us? (7) 12 Muddled as to where it’s at (3) 13 Picture Clue 16 Model-sounding meal (3) 17 No way is it said to be a hoarse voice (3) 18 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue 2 What we all once were! - in collision (4) 3 ...and Anna cooked the bread (4) 4 Picture Clue 5 Picture Clue 8 It’s blue, as you’re heard to say (5) 9 Picture Clue 14 Against having to earn (4) 15 Rutter, with prostaglandin reduction (4) Yesterday’s solution — ACROSS: 1 Sitting duck. 5 Signs up. 8 Theft. 9 Ogres. 10 Rival. 12 Frizz. 14 Legatee. 15 Semi-skimmed. DOWN: 1 Sweet dreams. 2 Taste. 3 Upper. 4 King-size bed. 6 Gateleg. 7 Scoff at. 11 Velum. 13 I-beam.

7a. A punchy composition for the pot-bellied? (7)

4d. “Yo, sexy aide, are you wild, flower?” (5,5)

1d. ... news - sometimes it’s fracturing (8)

1a. Can’t see it’s a bit blonde somehow (2,5,2)

18a. Out and out - could be a word thing (9)

13a. Negotiates over gash in leg (7)

9d. Plank (say) has a steady one (8)

5d. Wrist, when work’s piling up? (10)