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 Soup seen in fog (3) 6 Dog-sat, back in truck (3) 7 Picture Clue 10 A stern way to travel on water? (3) 11 Be poorly when kite all smashed up (4,3) 12 Sort of in the Milky Way (3) 13 Picture Clue 16 Engine Act — bit of a revelation! (3) 17 Hebridean island said to incite (3) 18 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue 2 The currency of rail disasters? (4) 3 Volcano crudely justified when tide’s out (4) 4 Picture Clue 5 Picture Clue 8 Group endurance shows 90-degree turn (5) 9 Picture Clue 14 Dither round the flagship (4) 15 She’s always in a bickering situation (4)

1d. Court card starting to finish the job? (4,2,2)

4d. Homage to faux-mink and ‘nest’ creation (4-6)

13a. Coined a new farthing, to tell it privately (7)

7a. Bail due for release, it’s heard (7)

1a. Party food swimmer? (9)

18a. Unmentioned room occupants? (9)

9d. Trusts that bees live in structured way (8)

5d. Ice plant is built as model stuff (10)