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 TOMORROW

ACROSS

1 Picture Clue

5 Picture Clue

9 Powder that forms part

of a vital component (4) 10 Old stables housing

kitten talks? (4)

11 More by tear

damage (5)

12 I said, ‘In Greece, OK?’ (4) 14 Some portions of

charged particles (4)

15 Picture Clue

18 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue 2 Picture Clue 3 The inalienable part of a

deliberate falsehood (3) 4 Whiskey from

yesteryear? (3)

6 Consume tea in

the park? Wild! (7)

7 One to throw with a

screw cutter? (3)

8 Picture Clue 10 Picture Clue

13 Chuckling, ‘he’ is said to follow the ball park (3) 16 Vicar, mentioned briefly in the Book Of Revelation (3) 17 Resort to being

a bit less kind (3)

5a. Stuck on how to very quietly deaden the composition? (8)

1d. Put caring in jeopardy by taking prisoner (9)

8d. Talked about discs that are used haphazardly (9)

10d. Brown paper wrapping, used in a mall? (7)

18a. It averaged out as being multicoloured (10)

2d. Throaty, windy one to take care of hat in broadcast? (7)

15a. Eager to present sly plan for Atlantic swimmer (4,4)

1a. Fat one in charge of T.E. Thomas? (10)