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.

ACROSS

1 Picture Clue

5 Picture Clue

9 Plunging in for a breather (4)

10 Leader for Armstrong to moon about? (4)

11 Shaken duo to perform better! (5)

12 Earnest, who set off just to gain merit (4)

14 Commotion on a list? (2-2)

15 Picture Clue

18 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue

2 Picture Clue

3 Taking a piece out of a hole? How? (3)

4 Sun god in solution (3)

6 Somewhat out of order to have a tiff over a boa! (1,3,3)

7 Believing in a falsehood (3)

8 Picture Clue

10 Picture Clue

13 Line, say, of fish eggs (3)

16 Extending into the aim (3)

17 Box in, say, the bath? (3)

1d. Tinny, aggressive sort of food? (So corny!) (5,4)

15a. Reels off characters one sympathises with (5,3)

8d. A ballad, or similar call for trip prerequisite (3,6)

18a. Soppy version of a dye remedy (6-4)

5a. Voice only, a rendering, all of a pace (1,7)

1a. Flyers for States reps? (4,6)

2d. Tediously continues on a not-so-grand scale (5,2)

10d. Tuner to tweak what’s incorrect (3,4)