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 From basking shark to winter travel (3) 6 Microbes heard to be in fish eggs (3) 7 Picture Clue 10 . . . and it’s excessive! (3) 11 Uphold the right way for reindeer (7) 12 Frequently inside, ahead of time (3) 13 Picture Clue 16 Looker said to be always from the past (3) 17 Osiris’ title? (3) 18 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue 2 Tennis player — to germinate? (4) 3 Force to have a dress . . . (4) 4 Picture Clue 5 Picture Clue 8 Ounce (single) as gas — it’s atmospheric! (5) 9 Picture Clue 14 Worn bit of tragedy (4) 15 Called, having managed gravity (4)

4d. What you are using right now! (4,6)

9d. Beth’s one weakness, to tell the truth (2,6)

1d. Flying in a bare iron fabrication (8)

1a. Using saga as a way of alleviating (9)

18a. Morbid side? That’s bang on! (4,5)

13a. Less, per each little change . . . (7)

5d. How can a dustcart be taken away? (10)

7a. Doggy order? (4,3)