PITCHERWITSTM

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 Nothing to change the egg store (5)

8 Picture Clue

11 Dead-end urge to drop (5)

13 Record points to crazy storyline Nero omitted (5)

14 Picture Clue

16 Machine loom, phased out, yet giving local energy (5)

18 Picture Clue

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2 Lovable part of old eggs (3)

3 Picture Clue

4 Tote bags are a bet lost on thermal ratings (4)

5 Picture Clue 6 Picture Clue

9 Picture Clue

10 Spot where the quiet is maintained, yes? (4)

12 Powder, in crystal-coated form (4)

15 Alternative from lees, after fermentation (4)

17 Coat that’s just not PC! (3)

6d. ‘Top of the range’! So glad the old pet revived (4-6)

3d. On the shelf, yet taken for aerial bed linen? (8)

5d. Conservative estimate? Correct assumption! (5,5)

14a. Cacti, grown in SouthEast, are Spartan (7)

9d. Could corgis be useful in matches? (3,5)

18a. Creed given challenge by deviation (10)

8a. Sections of submarines? (7)

1a. Tom, forcing a showdown that’s soothing? (10)