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. 1 Picture Clue 5 Picture Clue 9 Earth, depicted in oils (4) 10 James, before being university administrator (4) 11 Rene’s cutting, derisive remark (5) 12 Kiss (embarrassingly) the snow runners (4) 14 Give out time that’s right for grid (4) 15 Picture Clue 18 Picture Clue

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1 Picture Clue 2 Picture Clue 3 Thing’s found in gritstone (3) 4 Back to the South, you lush! (3) 6 Pristine, but knew lie to be false (4,3) 7 Whiskey — stashed in the dryer! (3) 8 Picture Clue 10 Picture Clue 13 Millions reduced to being poorly (3) 16 Initially, it’s a Bolivian throwback (3) 17 Polyethylene has it, however (3)