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 A whole layer of apprehension (3) 6 Cannot, at once, be a digit (3) 7 Picture Clue 10 Old disapproval in the middle of an airfield? (3)

11 Cry that could be of some physical compulsion (2,5) 12 Foot is a poor, but audible substitute (3) 13 Picture Clue 16 How deer get in the groove? (3) 17 Employment, but in dangerous extremes (3) 18 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue

2 Sediment of legumes, without a sticky centre (4) 3 Estimate the thought (4)

4 Picture Clue 5 Picture Clue 8 Model of amino structure (5)

9 Picture Clue

14 Hit a six back to the centre! (4) 15 Driest part of Angora Ridge? (4)

1d. Could hating be something you’ve already won? (2,3,3)

18a. Spud, growing in the reeds, made to look nicer (7,2)

4d. Gets money while in awe of a range’s variety (5,1,4)

13a. Suits the ceremonies in Algeria maybe? (7)

5d. Not finished, so held off arm movement (4-6)

9d. Sustain, in vertical fashion? (4,2,2)

7a. Mad? Insane to have knight enter stealthily (5,2)

1a. Gill to belie her attempts that can’t be read (9)