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

9 Bring up the one that’s cooked rare (4) 10 Dither round the flagship (4) 11 Carefully cleared away ad for fish basket (5)

12 Hotbed supplying the back end of what you owe (4) 14 Fruity one heard in earplug listening (4)

15 Picture Clue 18 Picture Clue DOWN

1 Picture Clue

2 Picture Clue

3 Make lace, within your limitations (3) 4 Church tree mentioned in address? (3) 6 What happened to the offer of nut to climb peak? (5,2) 7 Nothing being rung out, say, from campaniles (3)

8 Picture Clue 10 Picture Clue

13 Crab oarsman caught with a snake! (3) 16 Tease about a spare one? (3) 17 Geller, a bit of an agriculturist (3)

2d. Deflect light from crater, formed round figurehead (7)

1d. Square, say, made from fir doused in solution (4-5)

8d. Broken pen is put on pile of conduits (9)

15a. Use resource, but with no upward movement (4,4)

10d. Walk peevishly with a liquid weight (7)

18a. Think it matters they’re grey? (5,5)

5a. Feed plenty for tuft combed over nape (6,2)

1a. It’s a once upon a time thing (5,5)