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 7 Later taken to be on

the ball (5) 8 Picture Clue 11 Wrote about tall edifice (5) 13 Sun is back, in

nosey space! (5) 14 Picture Clue 16 Rust the beast looked

at in conversation? (5) 18 Picture Clue

DOWN

2 Attempt to sue for

a purpose (3) 3 Picture Clue 4 He will inherit the

sound of a melody (4) 5 Picture Clue 6 Picture Clue 9 Picture Clue 10 Just like one

big family! (4) 12 Low hire costs, giving rapid movement sound (4) 15 Instrument played by hobo, even though it’s small (4) 17 Fury that’s a bit of an

acquired taste? (3)

1a. To pass it on manually, working on a main hunch (5,5)

5d. Sect to answer falsely to latest reader (10)

3d. Your fate set out, “Me second” (5,3)

6d. Scoffing at attempts to work with yarn or hawser (7,3)

18a. Deem finder to be masquerading with a liberal attitude (4-6)

9d. Secures neckwear, worn in the usual way? (4,4)

14a. Circumvent the door with gun going off (2,5)

8a. Catches parents out! (7)