Solving Crosswords for Fun and Profit

Gah. That’s why those numbers rang a bell.

7-down トカ
11-down ヒドウ
8-across カウチ
15-across ツキヨ
11-across ヒトヨ *
20-down キョフ
14-down イットウチ I guess, but that feels a little… unprofessional
33-across could be アオバ, but I wonder if that’s more a Spring thing.

*I had to Google this one. There’s a standard goroawase for the digits of root-2 - it’s ひとよ ひとよに ひとみごろ

Edit: More words!

32-down ハアリ
23-across シラハ
19-across オウム
18-down シオ
22-down ジュウショ
22-across ジショ
27-across クチク
30-down ホウチョウ
31-across ウノウ (not sure I really get it, though)
30-across ホカク (not to clear on what tigers have do with it, but this did come up when I googled)
34-down カソク
39-down クン
17-across シチョウソン (should have worked that one out when we got 7-across)

3-across probably starts with ウ, based on the super secret magic word. I’m pretty sure that the only things that’ll fit シンク_カン are ウ or ン, and the latter can’t be the first character of 3-across.

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I had アオバ but I wasn’t confident in it enough to post it.

1-down ジュウミンヒョウ (?)
16-down イシキ
26-down ヨクし
5-across ヒフ (?)
17-across シチョウソン

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1-across ジャガイモ
(Makes 21-down モチ… I don’t get it)
9-down ヤキソバ
3-across ウソナキ
12-down ナエギ
(Makes 4-across ミバエ… I don’t get this either)
6-across ヨウイ
36-across コビ
25-across イチリュウ

And, uh… that’s done.

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There were a bunch I didn’t get in this one. I was going to post ジャガイモ but my class started. I couldn’t figure out why モチ was the answer either.

This has to be the fastest we’ve completed a puzzle.

have (very) intermittently been lurking this thread since way back.

I have way less vocab than probably ideal for doing these, but hoping I can spend some time musing over the next one. On this puzzle, managed to guess 1-down (likely because recently have been spending way more time than wanted at the 区役所 heh).

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Well, with just you and I, anyway. The very first puzzle was solved in four hours. The second one took three. :slightly_smiling_face:

Moving on:

9-across ルマン
8-across ミヤデラ
15-down デンシ
16-across シングルベッド

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6-across スパイ
12-down パジャマ

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19-across コタツ ?
29-across ヒタイ

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How do you figure? Pretty sure 名怪盗 is an individual. Like… ルパン

7-across アジ
Then 5-down カルアミルク

23-across キカ
25-down マジカル… I guess?
37-down マイルド
34-across ネマ
35-across … シル? That feels… rather charitable, though it does make 33-down end in シツ, which is plausible.

Just a tentative guess. Go with ルパン lol

I thought this but I couldn’t figure out what this had to do with Arabic.

Kahlua is made with arabica coffee, though that’s pretty much all I’ve got.

Though, Arabic for coffee is “qahwah”, so there’s that. Neither I nor Jisho have heard of カルアミルク, and Wikipedia thinks it’s カルーア・ミルク, sooo…

You’ve never heard of Kahlua Milk? You’ve never had the cocktail Kahlua Milk? Wow.

Well, no. And certainly not in Japanese.

In, fact, here. I’ve made a list of all the cocktails I’ve never drunk.

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18-across シロ (?)

1-across メザマシドケイ
2-across I’m thinking クダ… maybe. If I’m reading the clue correctly, it wants the other reading of a kanji with a bamboo radical that’s read as スガ. The only kanji with that reading and that radical is 管, except that スガ is a nanori. クダ is the kun’yomi, in any case.
17-down might be シシャモ - it’s a fish often served with its roe, apparently.

I had no clue. I got that it was looking for something with the bamboo radical on top but I gave up.

10-down ザダンカイ

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1-down メクバリ
4-across リカ
3-across バンチャ
19-across モウフ
Pretty sure the super secret magic word is タチリキンシ
So 30-across チリ
29-down ヒラチ
31-down シエスタ
Makes 32-across スタ, which I don’t get at all
36-down might be サマータイム, but that’s a curious way of describing it

Probably about time for a partial grid…

Edit:
Got a few more

27-down イヤー (it’s a pun, see?)
24-across オーエー
24-down オフ (as in, day off, offline)

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20-across ドラマ (which makes 20-down ドラ, meaning gong)
35-across ダル (as in, daal curry)

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22-down ウデマクラ
14-across ダキマクラ
13-down カダン (is… is that a “bed” reference too? Beause in English it’s a “flower bed”)

The last two I have no idea.

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Okay, have been using the better part of my Saturday afternoon musing over these.

26-across, I think イ is for a reading variant of 寝, and the clue sounds like a description of the way young children sleep: dozing against loved ones, napping in the sun, sleeping like a log once you get home.

following this line of thought (out onto a tree limb, ha), wondering if ジ could be a reading of 児。

alternatively, some weird idea of a feminine way to sleep? could be ジヨシイ?女子寝?(a weird attempt at a pun, possibly? しい being the ending of many adjectives…)

33-down then becomes リネシーツ。seems possible, but a quick internet search of the term didn’t turn up much. hmm.

grasping at straws, but welcome you to join me in doing so. haha.

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