PITCHERWITS

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 ON MONDAY

ACROSS

1 Picture Clue

7 Make sense, totally? (3,2)

8 Picture Clue

11 Deduce the finer

refinements (5)

13 Unit about to be

transformed into a coat (5) DOWN

2 Dispose of, out

of pride (3)

14 Picture Clue

16 ‘A port in a storm’ painting style (2,3) 18 Picture Clue

3 Picture Clue

4 Estimate the value

of speed? (4)

5 Picture Clue

6 Picture Clue

9 Picture Clue

10 Learning something

of merit (4)

12 Worry about some of us sneaking out? (4)

15 Leprechaun, itching to be in an army patrol (4)

17 Clot who is sassy to the core! (3)

5d. Developing catkins, say, for Missouri metropolis (6,4)

3d. The mint of an empire? (8)

9d. Talkative space on the internet? (8)

18a. ‘Rain’, said to come from an absent whisky? (6,4)

1a. Kid to turn fir around with orange juice, say (5,5)

14a. To be uncommunicative is lunar madness! (7)

6d. Media, medium for your programmes? (5,5)

8a. Goes over former germinators? (7)