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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55 comments:

  1. Shrikanth21 July 2013 at 10:33

    15A - HELICOPTER - HEROIC PELT*

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  2. Shrikanth21 July 2013 at 10:35

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

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  3. Shrikanth21 July 2013 at 10:40

    18A - EUCALYPTUS - EU + SALTY CUP*

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  4. Vasant21 July 2013 at 10:41

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

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  5. Mukundala Balasubramanyam21 July 2013 at 10:41

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

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  6. Vasant21 July 2013 at 10:43

    27AC:E(X)PLAIN*

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  7. Anonymous21 July 2013 at 10:49

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

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    1. The Battōsai21 July 2013 at 11:25

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

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    2. Anonymous21 July 2013 at 12:37

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

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    3. Anonymous21 July 2013 at 13:03

      I am a cipher as far as ciphers are concerned

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    4. The Battōsai21 July 2013 at 13:15

      LOL you caught the surface too there!

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    5. Richard21 July 2013 at 14:46

      1:03 You seem have zeroed in...

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    6. Anonymous21 July 2013 at 17:35

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

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  8. CA Prasad21 July 2013 at 10:54

    7.D. REALIST. L+SATIRE*

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  9. CA Prasad21 July 2013 at 10:58

    23.A.READYING. DIE+ANGRY*

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  10. CA Prasad21 July 2013 at 11:12

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

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    1. Shrikanth21 July 2013 at 11:19

      It is an indirect anagram, isn't it ?

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    2. The Battōsai21 July 2013 at 11:21

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

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  11. The Battōsai21 July 2013 at 11:23

    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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  12. Mukundala Balasubramanyam21 July 2013 at 11:26

    Col. Saheb,

    Where is the clue for 25D ?

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    1. Deepak Gopinath21 July 2013 at 11:52

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

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  13. Mukundala Balasubramanyam21 July 2013 at 11:38

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

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  14. Venkatesh21 July 2013 at 11:43


    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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  15. Venkatesh21 July 2013 at 11:45

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

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  16. doppelganger21 July 2013 at 12:01

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

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  17. Nadathur Rajan21 July 2013 at 12:26

    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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  18. Lakshmi Vaidyanathan21 July 2013 at 12:38

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

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  19. Anonymous21 July 2013 at 12:39

    Doppelganger has answered Battosai clues !

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    1. Shrikanth21 July 2013 at 13:01

      :)

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    2. The Battōsai21 July 2013 at 13:14

      LOL I too noticed! :)

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    3. Col_Gopinath21 July 2013 at 13:15

      Meaning ?

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    4. Anonymous21 July 2013 at 13:23

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

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    5. Col_Gopinath21 July 2013 at 13:29

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

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    6. Mukundala Balasubramanyam21 July 2013 at 15:51

      Kishore @ 1:23

      :) I think Afterdark is also a setter !

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    7. Anonymous21 July 2013 at 17:33

      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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    8. Mukundala Balasubramanyam21 July 2013 at 18:15

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

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  20. Lakshmi Vaidyanathan21 July 2013 at 12:42

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

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  21. Rengaswamy21 July 2013 at 13:38

    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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  22. Col_Gopinath21 July 2013 at 13:43

    Leftovers

    Across - 10

    Down - 25

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  23. Suresh21 July 2013 at 15:58

    10A SURFACE?

    25D LEER< ? Something wrong here

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  24. Col_Gopinath21 July 2013 at 17:49

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

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    1. Anonymous21 July 2013 at 17:54

      Also when you drink with a couple of stiffs

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    2. Mukundala Balasubramanyam21 July 2013 at 18:35

      Do the dead too drink !?

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    3. Suresh21 July 2013 at 18:38

      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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    4. Suresh21 July 2013 at 18:39

      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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    5. raju umamaheswar21 July 2013 at 20:54

      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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  25. Mukundala Balasubramanyam21 July 2013 at 18:22

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

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    1. Col_Gopinath21 July 2013 at 20:04

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

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