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 Cap is designed like a jelly (5) 7 Break from work in desert (5) 9 Picture Clue 11 Box, say, in the bath? (3) 12 Spot, say, the main item (3) 13 Picture Clue 16 Assorted sort of metaphor? (5) 17 Innuendo? Nod off out of boredom! (5) 18 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue 2 Columbus, missing bus, tries for stand- in doctor (5) 3 Only a bridge player could be this material (5) 4 Picture Clue 6 Picture Clue 8 Picture Clue 10 Melody – the stuff of life, basically (3) 14 Arid places I discover in ‘spoken’ lines (5) 15 Lied about a perfect state (5)