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 on Monday.

ACROSS

1 Picture Clue 7 Mad about braid (5) 8 Picture Clue 11 Gas, sort of? Groan perhaps! (5) 13 Hindu beggar heard a false listener (5) 14 Picture Clue 16 Angry at a tier collapsing (5) 18 Picture Clue

DOWN

2 Forbidden from the ball (3) 3 Picture Clue 4 ‘Thanks’ to honourable one, can pack tight (4) 5 Picture Clue 6 Picture Clue 9 Picture Clue 10 Just a crazy bit in a dream, OK? (4) 12 Determination to de-ice the roads? (4) 15 Someone’s mutterings include dirt (4) 17 Bit of compassion for donkey, please (3)