PITCHERWITS TM

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 A bit thoughtful,

as you were (4)

10 Look back to Feb 1st,

for charges (4)

11 Heftily, if not carefully,

produce an alcoholic type (5)

12 It’s a slam dunk for charity! (4)

14 Claiming to have a

children’s engine? (4) 15 Picture Clue

18 Picture Clue

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1 Picture Clue 2 Picture Clue

3 Bit of compassion for

this clot, please! (3)

4 Bolsheviks who back away from the resort (3)

6 Replacement thigh,

or something, OK old chap? (5,2) 7 In the Derbyshire Dales,

there’s beer to be had! (3) 8 Picture Clue

10 Picture Clue

13 Cut the grass at either

end of the mallow (3)

16 Rainbow, coming back from the aircraft’s hold (3) 17 However, be still (3)

5a. Primary medical procedure is adrift somehow (5,3)

1d. Cub getting fatter as a strange, harsh reality (5,4)

8d. Cedars set out beautifully by French mathematician (9)

15a. Night hunter will want to yowl haphazardly (5,3)

2d. Neutralises plug, or the situation maybe? (7)

10d. Threshed as aid fell away (7)

18a. Rigs carted off to be filled with toner (10)

1a. There’s often brass here, musically speaking (10)