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 Sociologist who tires

out Sweetbrier (5)

7 With accuracy, a car reversing out of the plant (5)

9 Picture Clue

11 Late application for

a bit to drink (3)

12 Pull from the readyto-wear section (3)

13 Picture Clue

16 Tones that jar where

the film’s made? (2,3)

17 Saw, a decade later? (5)

18 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue

2 Dire force put into

sad song (5)

3 Paddle your own,

up and down (5) 4 Picture Clue

6 Picture Clue

8 Picture Clue

10 Tin that’s competent? (3) 14 Eccentric sort

of route (5)

15 In between inert

compounds (5)

18a. Sarongs, seen to be fitted round eyes and ears, say (5,6)

1a. Snowdon OK by another route? Complete mystery! (6,5)

9a. Fashionable pattern for pre-flight visit? (5,2)

1d. Charlotte’s contribution to a summer salad? (3,8)

4d. Wizened old hands saw the C.S. Lewis film (11)

13a. Celebrate as hero with odd elision (7)

6d. Randomly ambles about and soothes (7)

8d. Where to eat with cutlery? (7)