Sunday 21 July 2013

Special, Sunday 21 Jul 2013, The Battosai


Three answers per commenter, with annotations.

Hiketsu
by
The Battosai


Author’s Note
Hiketsu is the Japanese equivalent of secret.
Try to find the words fitting the theme once you solve the crossword.
Reviews welcome on THCC or at kenshin.thebattosai@live.com with the subject XWord and an in-mail reference to the crossword title.
  
ACROSS
1   Assistance backing disrupted series for distinguishing mark (9)
6   Rush subverted by good gesture (5)
9   Plaster parasatic blood-sucker in offspring (5-2)
10 This is a good one! (7)
11 Idly bath as a cipher (6)
12 Anarchist is borderlessly philistine perhaps (8)
14 United Kingdom, away from Eurasian Republic, at tierce (4)
15 Transport heroic pelt in shreds (10)
18 Plant, found in European Union, with broken salty cup (10)
20 Fruit is reportedly slimy (4)
23 Preparation to die angry is clumsy (8)
24 Hidden pail with very hard-cooked rice (6)
26 Start-up in disorder due to arriviste (7)
27 Explicate the unknown in alpine outgrowth (7)
28 Colour returned, following Earl Ich's duck (5)
29 Bad conventions and a rule make a telegraph system (5,4)

DOWN
1   Take off for affront with rambling mental (9)
2   Genial fit around flipped target (7)
3   Endlessly scrape decapitated creature to be snappy (6)
4   Without hospitals (4)
5   Propitious first of September for middleman is funny (10)
6   Tender to the six staying in exotic resort (8)
7   Philosoper – learner buried in satire development (7)
8   Not bad for King George to eat (5)
13 Voyeuristic individual is the result of meeting pope endlessly (7,3)
16 Clean fire collapsed the fortification (4,5)
17 Be honest for extraordinarily frail pay (4,4)
19 Sorted out the bottom right corner covered by embroiled scald (7)
21 Lieutanant away from coagulant becomes a wild animal (7)
22 We limp regularly to scarf (6)
23 Round-about tour with Oriental path (5)
25 Look back to walk (4)
 





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Enjoy.

55 comments:

  1. 15A - HELICOPTER - HEROIC PELT*

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  2. 13D - PEEPING TOM - MEETING POP(-E)*

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  3. 18A - EUCALYPTUS - EU + SALTY CUP*

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  4. 6AC:(SHRU)*+G
    12AC:{(-P)NIHILIST(-E)}*

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  5. 17D : FAIR PLAY (FRAIL PAY)* Def: Be honest

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  6. 11a ATBASH*
    21d GUANACO* -lt
    6d SER(VI)TOR*

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    1. Kishore with an ATBASH here. Somehow I'd already thought Kishore would put up that one first. :)

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    2. Many moons ack I had put an Atbash puzzle here ;-)

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    3. I am a cipher as far as ciphers are concerned

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    4. LOL you caught the surface too there!

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    5. 1:03 You seem have zeroed in...

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    6. To borrow from Plum: to call me a zero would be giving me unnecessary importance

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  7. 29.A.MORSE CODE. CONVENTIONS=MORES* RULES =CODE

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    1. It is an indirect anagram, isn't it ?

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    2. Yup, sorry. Escaped somehow. Maybe I wasn't able to figure out a good clue back then. :)

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  8. This one is gonna be a piece of cake, LOL. Back when I was still infatuated with anagrams. :) I still hope you enjoy it though. It was my first attempt at a themed crossword. :)
    Thanks, Colonel, for encouraging budding setters like me.

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  9. Col. Saheb,

    Where is the clue for 25D ?

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    1. Sorry about that copy paste error. I have added it now.

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  10. 16D : RAIL FENCE (CLEAN FIRE)* Def: Fortification (with rail fence)

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  11. 1Ac Assistance backing disrupted series for distinguishing mark (9) (DIA<=)(ERESIS*)
    4Dn Without hospitals (4) SANS [2] (sans = sanitariums = hospital)
    5Dn Propitious first of September for middleman is funny (10) [-a](+S)USPICIOUS

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  12. 5Dn
    propitious - AUSPICIOUS
    first of September =S
    for - Substitution Indicator
    middleman - middle of man - A
    Defn: funny - SUSPICIOUS

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  13. 1D (DIS)(MANTLE*)
    8D (GR)(EAT)
    20A UGLI [~UGLY]

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  14. ACROSS
    9 TICK in SON = S(TICK) ON (plaster)
    DOWN
    3 RAK[e] [f]ISH = RAKISH (snappy)
    19 SE in SCALD* - CLAS(SE)D (sorted out)

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  15. 22D We limp regularly to scarf (6) WIMPLE (welimp)*
    23D Round-about tour with Oriental path (5) ROUTE (TOUR)*+E

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  16. Doppelganger has answered Battosai clues !

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    1. He clocked in at 1201 and posted 3 solutions. rare that one setter posts solutions for another's.

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    2. Fine, as long as he doesn't post solutions to his own crossword!!

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    3. Kishore @ 1:23

      :) I think Afterdark is also a setter !

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    4. Yes, his puzzles have featured in TH and this blog. However, he is an identified quantity with his pic also public. Doppelgänger is a comparatively unknown quantity.

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    5. Roger ! So the difference lies in identity/quantity, Known and Unknown !!

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  17. 28 A Colour returned, following Earl Ich's duck (5) EIDER {E+I+DER(RED<-)

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  18. 24 Hidden pail with very hard-cooked rice (6)(PILA)* FF
    26 Start-up in disorder due to arriviste (7)UPSTART*
    14 United Kingdom, away from Eurasian Republic, at tierce (4)TREY {turkey -uk}

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  19. 10A SURFACE?

    25D LEER< ? Something wrong here

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  20. When you walk after a couple of stiff drinks you would 'Reel'

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    1. Also when you drink with a couple of stiffs

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    2. That is not the problem. I thought we should walk back to look rather than look back to walk. Of course, doing the latter could make you reel

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    3. And if you drink with a couple of stiffs you may not even be able to reel let alone walk. I would probably collapse in fear.

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    4. When you're drunk, you're legless and many reel off from their mouth, because they're clueless as to where they're going or what they're saying !! Ask Salman Khan and John Abraham .

      Clue of my day:One across..

      NIce crossword BATTOSAI: 10 Across ! to let out your secrets !

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  21. Any cut off time for unsolved clues ? Eager to know the answers for 10A and 25D.

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    1. No need to wait, answers given by Suresh @ 3:58 are as intended by The Battosai

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