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 Army officer John, PM (5) 7 Church ends, after time elapses (5) 9 Picture clue 11 Hotel-keeper, keeping deer (3) 12 I-follower is a bird, say (3) 13 Picture clue 16 Unswayed — say no, not to be married (5) 17 Relative rumoured to come from South of France (5) 18 Picture clue

DOWN

1 Picture clue 2 More chaste than Peru going over to the right (5) 3 Antelope found in many a land (5) 4 Picture clue 6 Picture clue 8 Picture clue 10 To hold a ball — as you start to laugh (3) 14 Sick of being nourished — vertically? (3,2) 15 Approach for election (or high jump!) (3-2) Yesterday’s solution ACROSS: 1 Backed off. 5 Axe. 6 Leo. 7 Trickle. 10 Law. 11 Pioneer. 12 Leg. 13 Earring. 16 Lea. 17 Rye. 18 Candlewax. DOWN: 1 Below par. 2 Clot. 3 Disc. 4 Fire engine. 5 Apologetic. 8 Run on. 9 Karl Marx. 14 Rood. 15 Glow.