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 Oddly, Nature’s at a loss for a carer (5) 7 It’s tasty, according to the children! (5) 9 Picture Clue 11 Adoration’s starting to be a bother (3) 12 Sales of beer (3) 13 Picture Clue 16 Magnetic sorts of tales (5) 17 Dog called about giro fraud (5) 18 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue 2 Gives me a real piece to defame (5) 3 Water rat takes on coy publicist (5) 4 Picture Clue 6 Picture Clue 8 Picture Clue 10 Nip into Mississippi territory (3) 14 It’s an awful pain to have nothing on an instrument (5) 15 Clear report of Sid being subordinate to Lou (5) Yesterday’s solution — ACROSS: 1 Byzantine. 5 BMA. 6 Can. 7 Chamber. 10 Lbs. 11 Outward. 12 Eel. 13 Offices. 16 Ode. 17 Lee. 18 Archangel. DOWN: 1 Backs off. 2 Zinc. 3 Trim. 4 Eternalise. 5 Belladonna. 8 Hawse. 9 Bode well. 14 Itch. 15 Song.