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 Test a recipe for flavour (5) 7 Miniature version of cold warfare (5)

9 Picture clue 11 Limit of top gear (3) 12 What you do just by being around (3)

13 Picture clue 16 Small department has no terminal (5) 17 Ooze round hospital’s woolly one (5)

18 Picture clue

DOWN

1 Picture clue 2 Fear right to be late about (5) 3 ‘Codger’ could be described as golden (5) 4 Picture clue 6 Picture clue 8 Picture clue 10 Grief said to halt the horse (3) 14 Praise for alleged former road charge (5) 15 Faded road through mountains to East (5)