PITCHERWITS TM

ACROSS

1 Picture Clue

5 A bit of Schoenberg, for

those weedy types! (3) 6 Tot up bits of

wadding (3)

7 Picture Clue

10 Chasten outcast for

showing a layer (3)

11 Crafty type who

could be a strain (7) 12 Act the Yorkshire,

full stop! (3)

13 Picture Clue

16 Anteaters’ meal? (3) 17 Hidden at the end

of the lair (3)

18 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue

2 Sundays, without any soapy froth! (4)

3 Exploit determined

by fate (4)

4 Picture Clue

5 Picture Clue 8 ‘Archimedes’

to ring out (5) 9 Picture Clue 14 A bit naive to hold back against (4)

15 Counterfoil that puts back objections (4)

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

4d. Hold, not in a silly way, stuff to condition manually (4,6)

9d. Admen had peculiar way of being not mass-produced (8)

1a. Think of number 1, a belief fashioned in high speed steel (2,7)

1d. Bans a hue from being set up as a dandy (4,4)

13a. Alex? He’s off as he breathes out (7)

5d. Heir losing his rag in style in California! (4,6)

18a. Bed of cultivated salvia? It can be recommended! (9)

7a. Cut down chesty complaint to the duke (7)