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 Affronted at being somewhat backward . . . (3) 6 . . .central, but stupid and backward (3) 7 Picture Clue 10 Sick of billionaires? (3) 11 Alter, if needs be, little something (1,6) 12 Band where Romans had status? (3) 13 Picture Clue 16 Time for some feral hunting (3) 17 It’s an adaptation of rubbish! (3) 18 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue 2 Fusses, going back for a tonic (4) 3 It’s rare, somehow, at the back (4) 4 Picture Clue 5 Picture Clue 8 Plot end at the disco? (5) 9 Picture Clue 14 Fracas happily contained — in purse, say? (4) 15 Tennis player — to germinate? (4) Yesterday’s solution. ACROSS: 1 Knucklehead. 5 Coconut. 8 Rerun. 9 Twang. 10 Gusto. 12 About. 14 Returns. 15 Night porter. DOWN: 1 Keep right on. 2 Ulcer. 3 Extra. 4 Draught beer. 6 Concoct. 7 Not fair. 11 Shrug. 13 Onset.