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. 1 Picture Clue 5 Wait for a loss of humour (3) 6 Sayer — also a singer (3) 7 Picture Clue 10 Plainsong part, relatively speaking (3) 11 Best place to form post-op. model recovery (3,4) 12 Church tree said to make little woollies (3) 13 Picture Clue 16 Take in, and take off the heat (3) 17 Top Gun, in peaceful surroundings (3) 18 Picture Clue 1 Picture Clue 2 Trudging gait of a diplodocus (4) 3 Fight with the beam (4) 4 Picture Clue 5 Picture Clue 8 Make sense to hold a W German city (5) 9 Picture Clue 14 Greetings heard in unclear atmosphere (4) 15 Peasant has appetiser fed to him (4) Yesterday’s solution — ACROSS: 1 Blackmailed. 5 Fell for. 8 Waltz. 9 Sneer. 10 Route. 12 Rumba. 14 Oneself. 15 Detestation. DOWN: 1 Below ground. 2 Awful. 3 Large. 4 Deportation. 6 Lazy eye. 7 Fish roe. 11 U-boat. 13 Mufti.