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 Picture Clue 9 Lion speak, sounding sore (4) 10 Telephone — if it’s yours, you decide (4) 11 Join in with golden rollover (5) 12 Approval for ocean mammal? (4) 14 Reverse sound of middle bits (4) 15 Picture Clue 18 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue 2 Picture Clue 3 Produced insert of dowel (3) 4 Lie about a prophet (3) 6 Rotten way to humiliate? (7) 7 Are of a backward age (3) 8 Picture Clue 10 Picture Clue 13 Gasses found in dairy (3) 16 Curved part of sugar cane (3) 17 Bin (up to a point) (3)