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 Picture clue 9 Near the old ‘Nightingale’ front (4) 10 Goat stew is really old one-piece (4) 11 I’ve an odd notion that it’s an innocent answer (5) 12 Tie-dye, wash it out, yet leave it oddly spotted (4) 14 Objects taken back to counterfoil (4) 15 Picture clue 18 Picture clue

DOWN

1 Picture clue 2 Picture clue 3 Thing’s about to sit... (3) 4 Begone from me! (3) 6 Litre I’m about to hold back with (7) 7 Co-operating at first with Bill’s other half (3) 8 Picture clue 10 Picture clue 13 Time to bend an ear! (3) 16 She’s stuck in the crevasse (3) 17 Resistance — sounds quite meditative! (3)