Yobs by Chalicea
Misprints appear in the definition parts of 23 clues. Corrections, read in clue order, apply to the unclued light.
A nice gentle offering from Chalicea – thanks for that.
The hardest part for me was identifying the misprints. A bit tricky sometimes due to the number of obscure words but that’s no bad thing for seasoned Inquisitor solvers.
The misprints spell out SHADE TEN WORDS OF BAND’S HIT.
The unclued answer once I had enough letters in it was clearly INNER CIRCLE – a band I’d never knowingly heard of. As usual, Wikipedia tells us that Inner Circle are a Jamaican reggae band who brought us Bad Boys. I’m familiar with the song and I’ve heard trailers for the TV programme often enough to know that the refrain is “BAD BOYS WHATCHA GONNA DO WHEN THEY COME FOR YOU?” And we find those lyrics in row 1, 4, 7, 10 and 13.
As for the title – an anagram (bad) of BOYS
Thanks, once again, Chalicea.
| Across | Entry | Correction | Wordplay | |
| 1 Bad bet in a turmoil – storm involving band sand (6) | TEBBAD | S |
BAD BET (anag: in turmoil) | |
| 6 Partly destroys terrific source of advantage (6) | OYSTER | destrOYS TERrific (hidden: partly) | ||
| 11 Wearing twin thin hats of upholstered denim, ever so fashionable (8) | OVERUSED | H |
U[pholdtered] D[enim] EVER SO (anag: fashionable) | |
| 13 Grieving cry of Irish individual broken by requirement to stop (5) | OHONE | ONE (individual) around HO (requirement to stop) | ||
| 14 Phase between moults among retrograde vermin (6) | INSTAR | IN (among)+RATS (vermin; rev: retrograde) | ||
| 15 Small rodent found in ragout – intolerable! (6) | AGOUTI | rAGOUT Intolerable (hidden: found in) | ||
| 16 Poet’s cry to cull call hounds, drink and women (4) | ALEW | A |
ALE (drink)+Women | |
| 17 Cover with cloudberry and heather primarily for small moor door (5) | HATCH | D |
HAT (hat)+C[loudberry+H[eather] (primarily) | |
| 18 Of nature endlessly being subjected to dry heat (4) | AKIN | [b]AKIN[g] (subjected to dry heat; endlessly) | ||
| 20 Good entertainer ultimately appreciates parsons’ persons’ spirits (6) | GHOSTS | E |
Good+HOST (entertainer)+[appreciate]S (ultimately) | |
| 22 Supreme control of politician in Ireland (6) | EMPIRE | MP (politician) inside EIRE (Ireland) | ||
| 24 Champion of cause originally abandoned job with the French (7) | APOSTLE | A[bandoned] (originally)+POST (job)+LE (the in French) | ||
| 27 Stupid fellow embracing both sides of revolting and petrifying woman (6) | GORGON | GOON (stupid fellow) around R[evoltin]G (both sides) | ||
| 29 Incense Intense lover’s fuss concerning savour finally (6) | ADORER | T |
ADO (fuss)+RE (concerning)+[savou]R (finally) | |
| 30 Sweat’s Sweet‘s foul stench – a defect (6) | HUMBUG | E |
HUM (foul stench)+BUG (defect) | |
| 31 Rule Rune of aces? Put clubs last (4) | AESC | N |
ACES with Clubs moved to the end | |
| 32 Fill Will worn-out article changing hands at home (6) | ORDAIN | W |
O[l]D+A (article) with Left changed to Right | |
| 33 Daze Doze villager’s young sea-trout on counter (5) | SLEEP | O |
PEELS (young trout; dialect; rev: on counter) | |
| 35 Historically teach reach then test to some extent (4) | HENT | R |
tHEN Test (hidden: to some extent) | |
| 37 Work Word to attract interest in country dance (3) | HEY | D |
(double def) | |
| 38 Rising star, small company, 50% of fusion of two? (5) | COMER | COmpany+MER[ger] (fusion of two; halved) | ||
| 39 Sound of derision surrounding unknown Tennessee doofus (4) | BOZO | BOO (sound of derision) around Z (unknown) | ||
| 40 Following partnership agreement, name common principally in France. Shame! (6, 2 words) | FI DONC! | Following+I DO (partnership agreement)+N[ame]+C[ommon] (principally) | ||
| 41 Mother going back to haul a small vehicle vesicle (7) | AMPULLA | S |
MA (mother; rev: going back)+PULL (haul)+A | |
| 42 Struggling lassie in Skye, coming from the east (6) | EASSIL | LASSIE (anag: struggling) | ||
| 43 Make a practice of outlandish roofing (7, 3 words) | GO IN FOR | ROOFING (anag: outlandish) | ||
| 44 Employ, we’re advised, those addressed in the country (5) | YOUSE | Sounds like USE (employ) | ||
| Down | ||||
| 1 Dressed in Roman garb in accordance with opening (6) | TOGATE | TO (in accordance with)+GATE (entrance) | ||
| 2 Sins of fiends needing no introduction (5) | EVILS | [d]EVILS (fiends; minus first letter) | ||
| 3 Ensnare exorcist (5) | BENET | (double def) | ||
| 4 One who writes about universal deity (6) | AUTHOR | About+Universal+THOR (deity) | ||
| 5 Aussie city given blame initially for parking place allotted to ship (5) | BERTH | [p]ERTH (Australian city) with Parking replaced by B[lame] (initially) | ||
| 7 Bashful turning up holding essentially apologetic letters from the past (5) | YOGHS | [apol]OG[etic] (essentially) inside SHY (bashful) | ||
| 8 Try catching a young hag hog (5) | SHOAT | O |
SHOT (try) around A | |
| 9 Ignoring revised law, furious walkout finally pulls strokes for Auchnagatt (5) | TOUKS | [wal]KOUT (minus LAW (rev: revised); anag: furiously)+[pull]S (finally) | ||
| 10 Gives legal right to test line showing faults (8) | ENTITLES | TEST LINE (anag: showing faults) | ||
| 12 Brought up empty talk about a vegetable (4) | SAAG | GAS (empty talk; rev: brought up) around A | ||
| 19 Mark of disgrace not in the end put in letter from abroad (5) | SIGMA | S[t]IGMA (mark of disgrace) minus [pu]T (in the end) | ||
| 21 Wishes Fishes destroyed, as hope’s ending prematurely (5) | OPAHS | F |
AS HOP[e] (ending prematurely; anag: destroyed) | |
| 23 Feast Beast in West Africa’s second hour (4) | MOHR | B |
MOment (second)+HR (hour) | |
| 24 Fish with simple trimmed metal structure (8, 2 words) | ANGLE BAR | ANGLE (fish)+BAR[e] (simple; trimmed) | ||
| 25 Cordially taking only seconds with no muster master in feudal times (4) | ODAL | A |
[c]O[r]D[i]A[l]L[y] (every second letter) | |
| 26 Lichen on plants troubled Somerset (8, 2 words) | TREE MOSS | SOMERSET (anag: troubled) | ||
| 27 Good line, secure way to encourage plaits plants (7) | GROW-BAG | N |
Good+ROW (line)+BAG (secure) | |
| 28 About remembrance of deal, dead, part of job (Italian?) (6) | OBITAL | D |
jOB ITALian (hidden: part of) | |
| 34 Spender’s Spenser’s small coin that is spent with no limits beforehand (5) | PENIE | S |
[s]PEN[t] (no limits)+IE (that is) | |
| 35 House mass, initially of humans (4) | HOMO | HOuse+M[ass] (initially)+Of | ||
| 36 Word to identify someone – number one in the Élysée (4) | NOUN | NO (number)+UN (one in French) | ||
| 37 Symbol of holiness circling dead head in unlimited Jewish salutation (4) | HALO | H |
[s]HALO[m] (Jewish salutation; minus first/last letters) | |
| 38 He Hi and I are in business (4) | CIAO | I |
COmpany (business)+I+Are | |
| 40 Clean out local bars? bats? (3) | FEY | T |
(double def) |
Much enjoyed — copious thanks to Chalicea and kenmac. INNER CIRCLE and BAD BOYS were both unfamiliar to me, but Wikipedia knows all.
Owing to a missed misprint, I must confess to staring for a while at a message in appropriate but somehow non-IQ vernacular: SHADE TEN WORDS OF BAD SHIT.
Similar to David Langford@1, I took a while (and needed a 4 day break) to make sense of what now seems a perfectly obvious instruction. Having intuited the CIRCLE bit, I decided this represented a BAND in some way, but got no further. Of course once one realised there might be a band called INNER CIRCLE, Google solved the rest rapidly. Thanks to Chalicea and Kenmac.
An unexpected theme…however unlike most, I’m familiar with Inner Circle as they feature in what many regard as the best film of all time, Rockers (where many = me). My only hiccup was an attempt to force COMET to be the answer of 38ac (MET is half of meteor, which one could also consider to be a rising star if you’re as astronomically illiterate as me).
Like David @1 I was briefly confused/shocked by a naughty word appearing in the hidden message but it all came good in the end. I was also briefly misled by thinking of the (to me, anyway) more famous ‘Bad Boys’ by the Wham! lads. Not too taxing and great fun to solve.
Many thanks both.
Solving the clues and filling the grid took quite a long time, as I expected, mainly because of the clue manipulations, and the fact that they applied to some clues but not others. On completion of the grid, I was short of two of the letters, and I had to go over the last twelve Down clues again in order to identify the last eight letters correctly. The letters I finally collected from those clues were BANDSHOT, which could also have been BANDSHIT because of the dual possibility for the extra letter: I or O (from ‘hi’ or ‘ho’ to replace ‘He’). Obviously, ‘I’ was intended, making “BAND’S HIT”. I knew nothing of the theme, but that was no problem because the required thematic items were readily found on looking up Inner Circle.
Thanks to Chalicea and kenmac.
Lovely gentle puzzle. I figured that YOBS must be an anagram of BOYS but my money was on LOST BOYS initially so I didn’t get anywhere.
As expected from Chalicea the clues were very fair and the misprints as clear as they could be.
Thanks to Chalicea and kenmac!
Thanks, all. I’m so glad you liked it. Apologies for the ‘non-IQ-vernacular-potential’ (I had to smile!) and especial thanks to Kenmac. (From Chalicea – I’m part of ‘Dash’)
Dash/Chalicea @7 – I’m a setter (‘Henri’, I did IQ1901) and one aspect of this puzzle inspired me, in a roundabout and probably imperceptible way, to create a barred thematic crossword on a different subject. If it ever gets published I would be amused if anyone could ‘join the dots’ between the two puzzles 😆
Will look forward to it Henri @8 and try to join the dots.