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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 Just me, begorrah! (Well, a bit... ) (3) 6 Three-way novel solution (3) 7 Picture Clue 10 Digit that’s into everything (3) 11 Whose MO? I’ll get it by hook or by crook! (7) 12 Yield in fish trap (3) 13 Picture Clue 16 Left in main road, but was great boxer (3) 17 Party leader — that is to say, tart! (3) 18 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue 2 Paper stuff, badly sewn (4) 3 Club for (and from) the greens (4) 4 Picture Clue 5 Picture Clue 8 Take it back to her — it belongs to those people (5) 9 Picture Clue 14 Bit of hair — said to have brazened it out (4) 15 See a way to alleviate (4)

7a. Substitute – not always as static as he sounds! (5-2)

4d. Foment ‘wadi’ riots in Year 0 (4,2,4)

1d. Net costs – could be competitive things (8)

1a. Concede, it could be vein, say (9)

18a. Eyelet can be sewn into welding gas (9)

13a. Greet us strangely with a sign (7)

5d. Against ale drunk – RHS UK (4,6)