PITCHERWITSTM

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.

ACROSS

1 Picture Clue 5 Picture Clue

9 Member of climbing club (4) 10 Jutland — which is bit of a mouthful? (4) 11 Give final, painful cry (5)

12 They’re probably not (even for gamblers!) (4) 14 Little bit of ammunition found in half an ammonite (4) 15 Picture Clue 18 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue 2 Picture Clue

3 I’m optimistic that it’s cleaner inside (3) 4 Feeling belittled by the electric one (3) 6 Living with a big din? That’s awful! (7)

7 Backchat from a kisser? (3) 8 Picture Clue 10 Picture Clue

13 Such a noise at a boarding school! (3) 16 Curvy part of the hierarchy? (3) 17 Chilled out, but unwell (3)

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION — ACROSS: 1 Letting into. 5 Catarrh. 7 On air. 8 Litre. 9 Easel. 11 Ashen. 12 Last act. 13 Draw the line. DOWN: 1 Left one cold. 2 Inter. 3 Goral. 4 On the inside. 5 Clausal. 6 Hatchet. 10 Liszt. 11 Awake.

1d. Reduced foiled fob attempt (6,3)

2d. Makes possible pole of second son, say (7)

8d. Down, under places described and painted so (9)

15a. Fling hat away to window, over a door (8)

10d. Wee rats, nibbling away at woolly one (7)

18a. Terribly costly corn accelerators (10)

5a. Voice only a rendering, all of a pace (1,7)

1a. Plead with Max to be not good, e.g. (3,7)