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.

ACROSS

1 Picture Clue 5 Acquire music from non-flyer (3) 6 Pinch a bit of drink (3) 7 Picture Clue 10 Adjudicator borrowed to host ball (3) 11 Member joining the queue-jumpers club? (5,2) 12 Allow wallet to be thinned down (3) 13 Picture Clue 16 Have some Brownie points for this answer! (3) 17 Go wrong with cherry pip (3) 18 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue 2 Carefully sizes up, but it’s no use for fasteners (4) 3 She’s well into reform! (4) 4 Picture Clue 5 Picture Clue 8 Basic, low nature of a fool (5) 9 Picture Clue 14 That wink you have, it’s somewhat dark (4) 15 Ice cream follower in cowboy’s lasso dance (4)

1d. The perfect places for children’s sleepovers? (8)

4d. Tom to persist in trying to see Beatrix film (4,6)

5d. Rioting bandoleers can be supported (10)

18a. Acres of hay I made from a lounge seat (4,5)

9d. Berlin in trouble? Rubbish, that’s what it’s for! (8)

7a. Crises the bottle opener precipitates for journalists (7)

1a. “But I’m zany!” he blurted out in old Istanbul (9)

13a. Allots, like signals? (7)