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 TOMORROW

ACROSS

1 Picture Clue 5 Picture Clue 9 Olive oil, not vile

in a mixed dish! (4) 10 It’s pure disaster in

South America (4) 11 Idle away in hospital

in India (5)

DOWN

1 Picture Clue 2 Picture Clue 12 Gosh! Could be pigs! (4) 14 He made a prophet

with only a pound (4) 15 Picture Clue 18 Picture Clue 3 Tree that’s a bit

bashed in? (3) 4 Personal coding given in a good-natured way (1,1,1) 6 Head up to find foal that

got into trouble (2,5) 7 First Lady’s in several

places at once! (3) 8 Picture Clue 10 Picture Clue 13 Sagas, ending

in ‘chatter’? (3) 16 Siphoning off diesel fuel? That’s the spirit! (3) 17 Whiskey stashed

in the dryer! (3)

15a. Steered round a bad ending with no one about (8)

2d. Maintains, while planning a plush do (7)

8d. They are there to climb, eh, Edmund and Tenzing? (9)

10d. Supplicated but cruelly cast out and stacked (5,2)

18a. Clones of rasps, with cooked filo pieces? (4,6)

1a. Split fact, buried incompetently (10)

1d. Bumbling flower? (3,6)

5a. Not dipped, in states for nocturnal drivers (4,4)