PITCHERWITSTM DOWN 1 Picture Clue 2 Picture Clue

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.

ACROSS 1 Picture Clue 5 Picture Clue 9 Traffic warning of the

night flyer calling? (4) 10 Quick, look

both ways! (4) 11 Chop a standard piece

of spaghetti, say (5) 12 Ribcage bagless for grain (4) 14 Blossoming out of

a deficit (4) 15 Picture Clue 18 Picture Clue 3 Where

barristers drink? (3) 4 Part of an isosceles

triangle? HELP! (1,1,1) 6 So acute as, alas, to

make it happen (5,2) 7 Time to end

the rampage (3) 8 Picture Clue 10 Picture Clue 13 Stray one coming back

from the truck (3) 16 Curve that requires a

bit of a gear change? (3) 17 Huskies pulling away

from the jump (3)

15a. Carries away from the accident in a toff’s car (5,3)

8d. Underline cooked pies? Shame! (9)

10d. Fill up a barmy bucketload! (7)

2d. Bureaucracy which tapered off (3,4)

18a. Supply with money, but with big letters? (10)

1d. Ibis, precariously perched in porch at diocese (9)

1a. Street sellers giving baby sorrow? How horrid! (6,4)

5a. Iron out the reduction? (8)