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 Religious one in drab Big Brother sequence (5) 7 Acid’s formula for finding subs (5) 9 Picture Clue 11 ‘Cordial’ bloke on site? (3) 12 Individual hailing from Indonesia (3) 13 Picture Clue 16 Pull-in, as a way to save for the future? (3-2) 17 About ammo fired towards punctuation (5) 18 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue 2 Rapid rotation, with a wind of romance (5) 3 Live only to stick an oar in (2,3) 4 Picture Clue 6 Picture Clue 8 Picture Clue 10 Expire from fewer antibodies (3) 14 Country GP, yet to be employed (5) 15 Chops up distances ants travel from (5)

8d. The propriety of mud spreading round the core! (7)

18a. Hot, dry seats discovered in briefest light period (8,3)

9a. Blackadder’s accompanying sword belt (7)

1d. Gangers lost out with mighty blows (6,5)

4d. My undercoat peeling off in factual TV (11)

6d. By the by, the Boa could produce a little one (4,3)

13a. Producer: could be he erred on the unsafe side (7)

1a. Prospect of dewfall in the jar (5-6)