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 Acid rain cannot affect any Circle lines (5) 8 Picture Clue 11 Sun is back, so now you can see that nose tube! (5)

13 Prim types to take a turn for the worse on Holy Day (5) 14 Picture Clue 16 Puree dish with currency in India (5) 18 Picture Clue

DOWN

2 Showed the way, but a bit crudely and backward (3) 3 Picture Clue 4 Aunts from Santa Cruz, ironically, who ruled Russia (4) 5 Picture Clue

6 Picture Clue 9 Picture Clue

10 Leader seen in pale mirror images (4) 12 Earn a fortune (or close) (4) 15 Novello the engine? (4) 17 Grumpiest people are a bit tart (3)

9d. Support on which to rely, oddly, but in the right manner (8)

5d. Spectacles, perhaps, reviving the odd glimmer (4-6)

3d. Gets less if it floats around (5,3)

14a. Alter, if needs be, little something (1,6)

8a. With a pre-dial facility, it’s what I say. Can you see? (7)

18a. Coiffures as slithery as can be! (10)

1a. No-need-for-a-jumper, sport! (4,6)

6d. Scratch ops that won’t work for Grumpy (10)