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 Jim’s said to be where

the judo fighters are (5) 7 Three-dimensionally

cherubic? Her loss! (5)

9 Picture Clue

11 Sit-ups? It’s not to

drink out of! (3)

12 Colour that’s only

restored at the end (3) 13 Picture Clue

16 Firing up pyrotechnics

with a bit of fish (5)

17 Drum’s French: good,

it’s non-stop! (5)

18 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue

2 Itemised composer? (5) 3 Be outstanding at extracting complex cellulite (5)

4 Picture Clue

6 Picture Clue

8 Picture Clue

10 Printing units

from gemstones (3) 14 How to have played, yet do badly (5)

15 Turn to barn conversion in the town (5)

1a. Golfer, lamer after physiotherapy and statutory change (5,6)

13a. Mandarin, at a calculation of sums (7)

8d. How to track your journey? (2,5)

18a. Squashed by foot, with a sneaky nod to delft art (7,4)

1d. Shielding at an angle? On yer bikes, lads, from this party! (6,5)

4d. Messed around with oakum bed cut to pieces (6,5)

9a. Metal to be forged by a sailor (7)

6d. Leaps, like the Oz swagman? (5,2)