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 Shade said briefly not to be! (4) 10 Coif designed to give points of attention (4) 11 Chimneypot – not empty of cotton twill (5) 12 Centre-line pressed into maxi skirt (4) 14 Score pause in the remainder (4) 15 Picture Clue 18 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue 2 Picture Clue 3 Bit obtuse for employment (3) 4 Foregone something of oneself (3) 6 Gibed at artificial intelligence used in grand design (3,4) 7 Best bid for monogrammed piece (1,1,1) 8 Picture Clue 10 Picture Clue 13 Magnificent bit of crystal (3) 16 Finish the goal! (3) 17 Hope will secure a service seat (3)

15a. Sneaky peek at cape, to stay alongside (4,4)

2d. Strategies about static conversion (7)

1d. Mole for life – but not as a pet (5,4)

5a. Bruce, too confused to have four, of 64 (4,4)

1a. Be unbolted somehow – because of cramp? (4,6)

18a. Search fruitlessly in Balkan ward? (4,1,5)

10d. Feral or wild, it’s not make-believe (3,4)

8d. Where on-tap ideas can be drawn off? (5,4)