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 7 React badly, to box... (5) 8 Treat with contempt French yob (5) 9 Dumb elation gives way to flower cluster (5) 11 Colour said to unlock motor (5) 12 Picture clue 13 Picture clue DOWN 1 Picture clue 2 From 12 to the end of time, not a soul (2-3) 3 For pudding or purchase... Q.E.D. (5) 4 Picture clue 5 Picture clue 6 Picture clue 10 Record in charge of reasoning (5) 11 Checks the roadsides (5) Friday’s solution ACROSS: 1 Crab apples. 7 Opera. 8 No let-up. 11 Lilac. 13 Knelt. 14 Band saw. 16 Ochre. 18 Fan windows. DOWN: 2 Rye. 3 Branches. 4 Pace. 5 Stepfather. 6 Boiled beef. 9 Lockwood. 10 Tyre. 12 Loin. 15 Draw. 17 How.