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 Picture Clue

9 The sort of skull that’s

painless but stupid? (4)

10 Put up in parts of the

Amazon valley, folks! (4)

11 One-time cop he

took back in (5)

12 Throw at steamer (4)

14 Horse control reported

in bad weather (4)

15 Picture Clue

18 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue

2 Picture Clue

3 It’s everything you can say about this punch! (3)

4 Hay up! Is this a posh way to say yes? (3)

6 Dispersed or local, it’s a circle of flowers (7)

7 Antelope, increasing numerically in the interior (3)

8 Picture Clue

10 Picture Clue

13 Resort to a bit of banana skin humour (3)

16 Produced in an off-cut of dowel (3)

17 Describing a bit of a rubbish dump (3)

1d. Athletic? Casting my eye over it! (9)

2d. Makes possible a pole for second sons, say (7)

10d. Neither can be in that place (7)

18a. Indians, set out in delicate beauty (10)

15a. ‘Crab’ gibe is not nice in the game! (8)

5a. Chat to the girl about a really bright one (3,5)

8d. Dimension lacking intelligence? (9)

1a. Political veggie do? (5,5)