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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Special, Sunday 23 Jun 13, The Battosai

Three answers per commenter with annotations.

Shiken

by

The Battosai 

Author’s Note

Shiken is the Japanese equivalent of trial.

This puzzle was meant to be a trial, to see if I can work with more clue types.

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   Create confusion using plenty of jam at eatery (4)
3   Onlookers see rare metallic element on the vessel (10)
10 An ultra-poor, talented person (7)
11 Unhealthy oriental girl is a felon (7)
12 Vote can give rise to paisa equivalent (7)
13 Lauds crazy, sex-admitting group’s comeback (6)
15 Intelligence commission uncovers more conspiracies (5)
16 Great teacher well-versed in Hindu literature?! (9)
18 Guarantee of security provided by a guard on the web (6.3)
21 The woman you left suffered dearly (5)
23 Minibike I left tentatively to fetch bathing suit (6)
25 Reveals the right way to place container? (5,2)
27 Roar at Stanley’s girl after the Greek letter returned altogether (7)
28 Piece from real log (7)
29 Loathing expressed by near-exotic irregularity (10)
30 Crappies even out the cloak (4)

DOWN
1   Racism unit disturbed the beautician (10)
2   A scan, it reveals evil (7)
4   Mason life at sea island (4.2.3)
5   Just speak, or communicate by letter (5)
6   Narrator’s note on deceased ring leader (7)
7   Bargains and almost has spectacles move away (7)
8   Attack the skin (4)
9   Issue order for raid on building (6)
14 Small chatting device! (10)
17 Warm tuber served as pickle (3,6)
19 Air fuel engineered by loser (7)
20 Where people seem to disappear too often (4.3)
21 Time-worn! (3-3)
22 Pasta awkwardly causes anal gas (7)
24 It contained a flipped instrument not upto the task (5)
26 Cunning, yet regularly acquitted (4) 


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Special, Sunday 19 May 13, The Battosai

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Three answers per commenter.
2. Annotations to be compulsorily provided with the answer.

Chishiki

by

The Battōsai

ACROSS

1          Danish senor, worn at sea, had to save up (4,2,4,5)

9          Discount worker admits sound enticement with cruciverbalist (9)

10        Endlessly master regulated anger (5)

11        Butter up bad work to hide reclusive leader (5)

12        Plant by the French coop in Jordan (8)

15        Decorated by one who competed (5)

16        Government has rotten male tie (9)

18        Mint — stroke dress having central cut (9)

20        Blue shade almost ascetic (5)

21        Request to enact sin in disguise (8)

23        Beat dog with lead rod for first time (5)

26        Trunks I sort randomly (5)

27        Vote depended upon the conductor (9)

28        Ignore a near miss with organ in bad toss (5,4,4,2)

DOWN

1          Couple, one held by worthless fellow (4)

2          Structural expert of a treaty organization on film (9)

3          Coiled chicken head, rotten and not warm (3-4)

4          Kick off the instrument under the ring (4)

5          Murder caused by a nausea hit (10)

6          Guarantee to accommodate over time (7)

7          Official note on the evening (5)

8          Dump some new speech loosely remembered (8,2)

13        Implicit Secret Service could be unsophisticated (10)

14        Firearm engraving to somehow contuse arrested revolutionary (10)

17        Rogue back in Connecticut, away from the absurdly cautious and cheeky (9)

19        Pellucid inlay he assembled (7)

20        Unsteadily fly it southwest in a flash (7)

22        Gear mechanism serves two-thirds nothing (5)

24        Pickle at a diner? (4)

25        Lead this place with 0 for 2.71828... (4)

Author’s Note

Chishiki is the Japanese equivalent of knowledge.

This puzzle was made in the hope that a few uncommon words would improve your knowledge.

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Special, Sunday 14 Apr 13, The Battosai

INSTRUCTIONS

1.   Three answers per commenter.
2.   Annotations to be compulsorily provided, please do not post the answer if you do not have the annotation.

Sazanami
by
The Battōsai

ACROSS

1.   Deputy not first with Indiana order (6-2-7)
9.   Cheese dish by one in complicated barter (7)
10. Recover lost miracle (7)
11. Live longer outside roofless hut for fruit (5)
12. Upcoming increase in lease fee (9)
13. Indifference toward mid-branching in rogue mitosis (8)
15. Alienated, confused manic has nothing (6)
18. Outclassed by humming bee having dined (6)
19. It is a superstitious idea that colour changes act (5,3)
22. Worsen tax covered by cluttered garage (9)
24. Save for some recreation with minister (5)
25. Admire odd solid in popular browser (7)
26. Wrong move being away from site with Daniels for Tea (7)
27. Register Station in disarray by selective inflammation (15)

DOWN

1.   Nothing in false issuer to be thoughtful (7)
2.   Cancer caused by king-based setup without Hillary and Lincoln (9)
3.   Tricky lob into the upper right was splendid (5)
4.   Damaged entire street for gain (8)
5.   Not very bad service for colour (6)
6.   Denoting language using bad 2D, or by cooking Chef's macaroni (9)
7.   Lawyer back on time for saying (5)
8.   Popular medic? No? Doctor has Tetanus for Necrosis (7)
14. Chant around broken vial for knight (9)
16. This manic out of sorts is an operator (9)
17. Live outside - back to urinate in peculiar lotus? (5,3)
18. Direction to beg around falling rain (7)
20. Container returned with a smaller amount is not fully covered (7)
21. Ready with Terry and Elliot for special cell (6)
23. Definition for good loss (5)
24. Cracked software missing "retweet centre" till now (2,3)

Author’s Note

Sazanami is the Japanese equivalent of ripple.
I wanted my first crossword to be at least a small ripple in the infinite ocean of cryptic crosswords.
Reviews welcome on THCC or at kenshin.thebattosai@live.com with the subject XWord and an in-mail reference to the crossword title.

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