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 Picture Clue 9 Insurgent instinct (4) 10 What’s remaining? It just ain’t right! (4) 11 Employment of sausages donkey won’t have (5) 12 Press down current model first (4) 14 Fiddled odometer — bit of a dead duck! (4) 15 Picture Clue 18 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue 2 Picture Clue 3 Asking to be included in snow glider (3) 4 Manage to score one on pitch (3) 6 China — it can produce lovely wine (7) 7 The fury of an Airedale? (3) 8 Picture Clue 10 Picture Clue 13 Came across at the same time (3) 16 Manage the end of time (3) 17 Little seat of learning — to a degree! (3)

Yesterday’s solution

ACROSS: 1 Currant loaf. 5 Full sum. 7 Meets. 8 Sonar. 9 Nooks. 11 Admin. 12 Tantrum. 13 Fell-walking. DOWN: 1 Creaming off. 2 Atlas. 3 Tusks. 4 Free running. 5 Flew out. 6 Minimum. 10 Sinew. 11 Aural.

1a. Emitter was taken by one not serious (4-6)

2d. Came to rest in upended position (5,2)

1d. Rum — a tacit brew that’s shocking! (9)

5a. Settling on a certain factor (8)

18a. Imp quality has same start to ‘ego’ quality (10)

15a. For feline professionals? (8)

10d. Shows the way with connected flexes? (5,2)

8d. Wobbly top stages of entrance sides (9)