PITCHERWITSTM

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 Antagonist from

the past (3) 6 Accusations coming

in America (1,1,1) 7 Picture Clue 10 Basmati recipe,

generating fury (3) 11 Judas has a characteristic

alternative (7) 12 Ely is a source of

hydroxide solution (3) 13 Picture Clue 16 Breadwinners, retreating

to the pub! (3) 17 Printing units, just

in themselves (3)

18 Picture Clue DOWN

1 Picture Clue 2 Lame excuse for

a repast! (4) 3 Called off an

arrangement (4) 4 Picture Clue 5 Picture Clue 8 Oil a branch

for peace? (5) 9 Picture Clue 14 Tennessee people

in slow leak (4) 15 Disciples having a slipped one, maybe? (4)

1d. Hopes outstretched on the roof (8)

4d. They can make a train, whereas gel could not (4,6)

13a. Best player who could be up to speed (3,4)

9d. Jacket to run round field in? (3,5)

5d. Tip about Majorca: it could be someone’s preserve (7,3)

7a. Organ loft, not at odds to yearn (4,3)

1a. Utterly trouncing (with a mallet?) (9)

18a. Clamped? Is, sadly, lost (9)