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 Picture Clue 9 Top edge of container - could lead to stone (4) 10 Bit bad at accepting the facts (4) 11 Go in as presenters (no press though!) (5) 12 Prophet heard to scorch (4) 14 Rues error, that’s for certain (4) 15 Picture Clue 18 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue 2 Picture Clue 3 Bird wading in the mud (3) 4 Nice index for pud? (3) 6 Eerily so quiet? Exactly! (5,2) 7 Reincarnation of genetic transmitter (1,1,1) 8 Picture Clue 10 Picture Clue 13 Take in something of the Poet Laureate’s (3) 16 Loafer - bit of a yob, actually (3) 17 Not again! (Only a bit of a game) (3)

2d. Inkling in a twinkling? (7)

1d. Gets to the surface — in a soapy way? (7,2)

5a. Asked about a quin having a ride (8)

1a. Bring up the problem of what sky can do (8,2)

18a. Gill- or fern-shaped bit of bread (6,4)

15a. Teapot, so designed as to be a vegetable (8)

10d. Welsh one — could be a snappy one? (7)

8d. Come alongside with drawl Eve left to end (4,5)