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.

ACROSS

1 Picture Clue

5 Awake on the stairway (5)

7 Bedouin dialect, exported from Asian republic (5)

9 Picture Clue

11 Buyout, but not for the puzzler (3)

12 Openings for some of the orators (3)

13 Picture Clue

16 Tiger eye? Get away!

Could it be a nest? (5)

17 Hindu leader had us in stitches! (5)

18 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue

2 Roots need doing, just above the hips? (5)

3 Metallic sound about a connection? (5)

4 Picture Clue

6 Picture Clue

8 Picture Clue

10 It’s to chew over from the docu-drama (3)

14 Wants Danish leader to be seen to back out (5)

15 Seats set out for a useful piece (5)

4d. Tiny quantity, as one awkwardly mounts the llama (5,6)

18a. Deny proceedings which feature costbusting efforts (6,2,3)

1d. Hip hip, with gusto, as he ate cherry pie (6,5)

13a. Sandal takes a turn for the worse in open-tops (7)

8d. Seedpod opened up and forced out (7)

6d. Like a pipe, it’s nasty and brutal having a turn (7)

1a. Palm that hatches out in ‘get fit’ sites (6,5)

9a. Clog with a vertical brick? (5,2)