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 Calms the bluebells

from the Beeb? (5)

7 Tag that can be all (5)

9 Picture Clue

11 Webmaster, advertising

the doctor’s club (1,1,1)

12 In some ways,

quite catty talk (3)

13 Picture Clue

16 Motif of the menu? (5) 17 Off the cuff with a little store of adverts? (2-3)

18 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue

2 Making sense of a

west German city (5) 3 Stipulate test ban

when cooking rice (5) 4 Picture Clue

6 Picture Clue

Picture Clue

8

10 Proposed ETA for

the meal (3)

14 White meat item taken

off the cereal (5)

15 Long for, at the end of the day, to have merit (5)

4d. Birth, say, that takes up less space? (8,3) 8d. Rub film out right to the top (7)

18a. Unusual and grotesque strand tacked on to DNA (3-8)

9a. Turn I’ve come to associate with a choking tube (7)

6d. Problems above all, without a type of rogue (7)

1d. To be bluntly awkward, it’s a navel! (5,6)

13a. Instead of (an apology, perhaps?) (2,3,2)

1a. Vest is a hopeless flop in trouble (11)