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 on Monday.

ACROSS

1 Picture Clue 7 Ambusher — he’s out for the odd dance! (5) 8 Picture Clue 11 Hit your fair share? (5) 13 Instruct model with painful ache (5) 14 Picture Clue 16 Cloth dug out backwards (5) 18 Picture Clue

DOWN

2 Resistance sounds quite meditative! (3) 3 Picture Clue 4 Folded umbrella? Somewhat mute! (4) 5 Picture Clue 6 Picture Clue 9 Picture Clue 10 Rail disaster, formerly current in Italy (4) 12 Care about the area (4) 15 Pig, found in a gun barrel, so to speak (4) 17 Born of horsey talk? (3)