PITCHERWITS TM

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 Totted up 500? Dead silly! (5) 7 Bury plans that are inert (5) 9 Picture Clue 11 Neuro-vascular feature of ‘eggy’ types! (3) 12 Causing a bit of annoyance, back over there (3) 13 Picture Clue 16 Review of first audition (5) 17 Sly defrauder to feed off sorghum (5) 18 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue 2 Arid places I discover in Circle Lines (5) 3 Inhale sharply and very loud after sin offering (5) 4 Picture Clue 6 Picture Clue 8 Picture Clue 10 Lip that could be Pacific (3) 14 Turner has a (sort of) Rolls-Royce too (5) 15 Again, diagram shows Asian republic (5)

4d. Adhering to arc pattern for rustic, personal parking? (6,5)

18a. Fascinating art painted by internee for amusing one (11)

1d. Foragers can make tea out of angry droplets (5,2,4)

9a. Thomas the Roundhead attempting to fix from afar (7)

6d. Sift out the badly disaffected, once ruined (7)

13a. Deep red, picked out in cream? (7)

8d. Try out a blunted axe in fiscal period (3,4)

1a. Just not wary enough to build unit of grottos (3,8)