Every Friday at 1300 hours, Tally-Ho Corner’s cleverest clogs come together to solve a ‘foxer’ handcrafted by my sadistic chum and colleague, Roman. A complete ‘defoxing’ sometimes takes several days and usually involves the little grey cells of many readers. Don’t be shy. All are welcome to participate.
Roman relaxes by planning imaginary journeys using old railway timetables, making Napoleonic dioramas from coloured pipe cleaners, and by doing jigsaw puzzles. His current table monopoliser is titled “Fings Wiv Wings” and collages dozens of Wikipedia images. Here’s a selection of pieces from it. Identify all 36 of the ‘fings wiv wings’ to complete the defox.
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SOLUTIONS
Last week’s cluster foxer:
Pancho Villa Expedition (defoxed by Colonel_K)
a1) Pershing (Colonel_K)
b1) Jenny (Phlebas)
c1) Columbus (Colonel_K)
d1) Patton (AriochRN)
e1) Pancho Villa (Colonel_K)
The Falkland Islands (defoxed by Nutfield and ylla)
a2) Operativo Cóndor or Air Marshal Sir John Bagot Curtiss (AFKAMC)
b2) Port Stanley (Nutfield)
a3) Warrah (Nutfield)
a4) Kelp (ylla, Phlebas)
b4) PNA Islas Malvinas (AriochRN)
Rice (defoxed by captaincabinets)
c2) Paddy (AFKAMC)
b3) Jasmine (Viscount)
c3) Eleanor Rigby (ylla, Viscount, captaincabinets)
d4) Rice harvester (Colonel_K)
c4) Dewi Sri (captaincabinets)
Words that begin with ‘pan’ (defoxed by Colonel_K)
d2) Pangolin (Nutfield)
e2) Pantheon (Bazooka Radley)
e3) Panini (AFKAMC)
e4) Panhard (Colonel_K)
e5) Panopticon (Bazooka Radley, ylla)
US state capitals (defoxed by ylla)
d4) Raleigh (Colonel_K)
a5) Olympia (Bazooka Radley)
b5) Lincoln (ylla)
c5) Bismarck (Bazooka Radley)
d5) Dover (ylla, Bazooka Radley)
F(r)iday Foxer… 🙂
B2 – Fruit Bat
D4: Fall of Icarus
B6 – Lombard Street Grasshopper
C5 – Q (On the Chrysler Building)
Surely, use a plane?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCE3xpqBNdM
F2 – Tie Bomber
C6 – looks like a Crested Penguin
Rockhopper, maybe?
Yeah, Rockhopper looks good to me.
A6 – Mexican coat of arms – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Mexico#/media/File:Seal_of_the_Government_of_Mexico.svg
A1 – Hispano-Suiza stork – https://www.hemmings.com/stories/2014/12/12/the-whole-storky-why-is-there-a-bird-on-the-radiator-of-that-car
F5 – Tulpar, Flying Turkish Horse – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulpar
D3 – Montenegro flag – https://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/me.html
F3 – Could be the Oregon Ducks?
D1 – Mercury (winged helmet and staff) on a St Lucian stamp:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mercury_on_a_St._Lucia_1949_UPU_stamp.jpg
C1 – Zmey Gorynych, Slavic Dragon
F4 – Bartini Beriev VVA-14, an ekranoplan or wing in ground effect vehicle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartini_Beriev_VVA-14
B1: Cottingley Fairies – Elsie with a winged gnome
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottingley_Fairies
Bah, i thought it was them, couldn’t find the right pic.
F6 – Boeing 2707 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_2707
F1 – Flying Dragon lizard – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draco_(genus)
A4 – Assume this is an Air Force One, but don’t know which ‘one’.
Would be funky if it was…
Ling-Temco-Vought XC-142 tiltwing experimental aircraft
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LTV_XC-142
Speaking of presidents, I think A5 if a Presidential Turkey Pardoning, but which Prez?
D5 – V1
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/nazis-built-30000-v-1-%E2%80%98buzz-bombs%E2%80%99-terrorize-london-submission-it-didn%E2%80%99t-work-out-way
C2 – Felixstowe F.2 flying boat https://www.militaryfactory.com/aircraft/detail.asp?aircraft_id=921
F3 – this certainly looks like the bus tour of South Africa celebrating winning the 2019 Rugby World Cup, though I can’t make a connection with wings (as a Springbok is an antelope).
Any rugby team has two wing(er)s, I suppose…
Oh yeah – that sounds good enough to me.
E3 – looks like a sycamore leaf (the seeds have wings)
E2: Royal Hungarian Air Force Pilots Badge metal version
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviator_badge
D2: The Annunciation by Fra Angelico
… continuing D2, the wing’d fing then being Archangel Gabriel.
C3 – aircraft in background is the De Havilland Mosquito at the Yorkshire Air Museum – but I guess it’s the thing in the foreground we want?
I reckon it might be their replica of the Cayley Glider – it has the right colour scheme, cockpit shape, wheel and masts. At least to my eyes…
ETA: Yep, it’s on the Wikipedia page too, obvs…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Cayley
E6 Drury Lane Theatre
E1 – RMS Queen Mary 2 (her bridge has wings)
Is B3 the White House? Sure looks like it.. and it famously has at minimum a West Wing
Specifically the north face of it… can’t find the right picture but I’m pretty sure of it now.
I think so – the hanging lamp is the giveaway
E5: Spicebush swallowtail (Papilio troilus)
D6: SAVAK = Sazeman-e Ettela’at va Amniyat-e Keshvar
Iranian secret police under Pahlavi
Left to find / confirm:
A2
A3
A5 – turkey? presidential pardon?
B4 – pestered by harpies?
B5
C3
C4 – presumably not Paul McCartney
C6 – penguin of some variety
E3 – sycamore seed?
E4
F3 – wings of a rugby team?
A2 – this is a guess as I can’t find the original image, but it looks like it might be the landing skid of a Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet
Like this: https://rafstories.org/story/raf-wp-7075
It’s on the Wikipedia page:
“Landing skid of a Messerschmitt Me 163B shown extended for takeoff, with the take-off dolly attached.”
A3 – Horus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horus#/media/File%3ARam-headed_falcon_amulet-E_80-IMG_2503-with_reflection-gradient.jpg
Left to find:
A5 – turkey? presidential pardon?
B4 – pestered by harpies?
B5
C4 – presumably not Paul McCartney
E4
I think E5 remains undefoxed as well.
Spicebush swallowtail butterfly on the Wikipedia page for Swallowtail butterflies.
(I tried posting that answer earlier, but it’s held up in a moderation queue, if not vanished).
I’ve replied to you now, and given the answer earlier. They’re all held up in moderation presumably for containing moderately rude innuendo.
Be assured I’m happy with the answer.
C4 – Angel Clarence in It’s a Wonderful Life, played by Henry Travers. At this point in the movie, however, I believe he has yet to receive his wings.
E4 – “Dragonfly” Titan explorer drone concept
A5 – Buckbeak, a hippogriff
By my count, this leaves B4 and B5 foxed.
B5 – German troops seated in a Gotha Go 242 glider, Russia, 1943