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Thanks HW7

I can’t find 12 down as a Chinese therapy in the dictionary - though the subsidiary indication is clear. Am I looking in the wrong place?

A nice puzzle

12d is in Chambers as a hyphenated word

...or Google that hyphenated word with "shiatsu"

Thanks Jordan - found it at last

Sealed up and in the box on Saturday; but I'm still puzzled by the title - with Ethik at #38, I can't see that "Mute stop" as the title is a very elegant cryptic reference to the thematic perpetration, unless I'm missing something clever -
"Mute" for the first part - OK; but "stop" for the second - or for the whole thing? Am I being dense? "Mute ending" I would understand better, but still not amazing.

Any discreet ideas?

Adeano -
I see by your #30 that you've cracked the title - '"...an alternate phrasing of the thematic pair! Lovely!"

Please do (discreetly) share your insight - which "thematic pair" do you mean - the 'perpetrators' or the 'perpetration'?

I've looked at thematic translations, lists of synonyms - nada.
I know it doesn't mattter, but it's bugging me...

Can somebody (PLEASE!) reply to Quixote's request re-explanation of puzzle title. Adeano?

If it is clever I would dearly love to know.

The title is ingenious, once you have the theme. The six components containing the work of the “perpetrators” are part of a collection whose 14-letter German name is S—g. Look up the English equivalent in BRB, sense 1.

I did enjoy this one, not too fierce in the heat and some lovely thematic hints. NB although the theme is well known to me I still had to look it up as I don’t have the track list memorised. I do agree that it’s a shame there’s no endgame to show we’ve figured out the theme — a simple grid fill would be a satisfactory solution as stated. Since the theme is indeed shown, as the preamble tells us, in two clues, we could just have been asked to highlight those two clues to show the theme, for example. Still, nice one.

I came late to this (family wedding in the deep south, visiting friends on the return north) and have just finished. Thank you Llig; very nicely judged, I thought.

There is a, tenuous but real, link from the theme and second perpetrator to the subject of my doctoral thesis - which had absolutely nothing to do with the theme or the perpetrators. I trust I make myself wilfully obscure!