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 Travel in direction of ‘default’? (2,2) 10 Fatal consequences of the powder (4) 11 Instrument with which to reject Joseph? (5) 12 Tiff now past and done with (4) 14 Vessel could follow friend in association (4) 15 Picture Clue 18 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue 2 Picture Clue 3 Residue stashed out of sight (3) 4 It’s a positive

eyesore in places (3) 6 A garden state in the W. Indies (7) 7 Accusations in America (1,1,1) 8 Picture Clue 10 Picture Clue 13 Member of farming community (3) 16 Have to pay in the flowerpot (3) 17 Engineering piece — in matches section (3) Yesterday’s solution ACROSS: 1 Horse’s mouth. 5 Dragons. 7 Chime. 8 Say-so. 9 Nadir. 11 Broth. 12 Plaster. 13 Camomile oil. DOWN: 1 Homocentric. 2 Evade. 3 Moors. 4 Hilton hotel. 5 Dried up. 6 Seymour. 10 Realm. 11 Betel.