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.

ACROSS

1 Picture Clue 5 Slide in — on banana skins? (3) 6 Perceive, say, the ocean (3) 7 Picture Clue 10 Pressure in campsite, but not in caravan park (1,1,1) 11 Could be political or raving (or both?) (7) 12 Little one is terribly OTT (3) 13 Picture Clue 16 Succeed in a bit of swindling (3) 17 Tin that’s competent? (3) 18 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue 2 Bad back, right? — in drear setting (4) 3 Long way off (as for all race starts) (4) 4 Picture Clue 5 Picture Clue 8 Unlit, illogically, — up to when? (5) 9 Picture Clue 14 Describe ethnic output of sugar plant (4) 15 Cotton on to little branch (4) Yesterday’s solution ACROSS: 1 Sentimental. 5 File for. 8 Egypt. 9 Remit. 10 Elder. 12 Water. 14 Van Dyck. 15 Future tense. DOWN: 1 Screened off. 2 Nifty. 3 Thrum. 4 Light breeze. 6 Later on. 7 Far away. 11 Davit. 13 Token.

4d. Outlived, on the basis of a power shift (10)

13a. It holds together the bottle I broke (3,4)

1d. A follower of the discarded disc pile (8)

7a. Tyre, stripped from retributory tortilla (7)

1a. Devoted to add deceit to confusion (9)

18a. A gentle arc — as a quadrilateral (9)

9d. Example of the immediates, say? (8)

5d. He’s family — in-flight? (10)