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.
Below is a list of ‘30 things wot are or were pink’ (‘things’ is used in its broadest possible sense). Entries have been stripped of vowels and numbers and have had any inter-word spaces repositioned*. For example, if rosé wine was present it might appear as RSW N. Flamingo would be FLMNG.
*Hyphens are treated as spaces. Apostrophes are ignored.
1. JPR
2. PPPP G
3. RFTR NDSD RN GT HGL FWR
4. SHF FLDN TDSW YKT
5. T HFNN CLTMS
6. PLRTSD JMR
7. NTHR DFN PLT NCC R M
8. SS TRSR VNT SFTHH LYS PRTFP RP TLD RTN
9. RSCN STNCS PRY
10. SSS TG R
11. N KDM LRT
12. D RN R
13. BRSTCN CRWRNS SR BBN
14. L CBT HMR
15. HMM RSMTHN DCT YLN
16. GLH
17. LDYPN LPCRG HTNW R DSCR
18. CK TLM DFRMG NGRN DNN DG GW HT
19. D NC SRHTL
20. CND YFLSS
21. THB RTSHM PR
22. MN M NTTSV TTNKC R WSNP RG
23. HT TLGN
24. ST VBSC MNRSR VRDG S
25. MZ NRVRDLP HN
26. NHND RDY NBN KNT
27. PCHBLS SM
28. HM SKNY
29. TRMSLT
30. BN DDSP RTWT HSN DNDT WN T YN
31. RTHWRM
32. TRN GLSWR NBYSMCN CNT RTNCM PN MTS
33. BRBRCRTLN D
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SOLUTIONS
Last week’s ‘Fings wiv Wings’ jigsaw foxer
a1. hispano-suiza stork (Nutfield)
a2. me 163 komet (AFKAMC)
a3. horus (Panzerschwein)
a4. ltv xc-142 (Colonel_K)
a5. buckbeak the hippogriff (Whistler)
a6. mexican flag (Viscount)
b1. cottingley fairy/gnome (Colonel_K)
b2. indian flying fox (Nutfield)
b3. the white house (captaincabinets)
b4. stymphalian birds
b5. gotha go 242 (Whistler)
b6. gresham grasshopper (Nutfield)
c1. zmey gorynych (Nutfield)
c2. felixtowe f.2 (AFKAMC)
c3. cayley glider (Colonel_K, AFKAMC)
c4. clarence from it’s a wonderful life (Whistler)
c5. q (Nutfield)
c6. northern rockhopper (Viscount, ylla)
d1. mercury on a st. lucian stamp (Phlebas)
d2. angel gabriel (Colonel_K)
d3. montonegrin flag (Viscount)
d4. icarus (Nutfield)
d5. v-1 (Phlebas)
d6. lamassu (Colonel_K)
e1. rms queen mary 2 (AFKAMC)
e2. royal hungarian airforce badge (Colonel_K)
e3. sycamore seed (Viscount)
e4. nasa dragonfly (Whistler)
e5. spicebush swallowtail (Colonel_K)
e6. theatre royal, drury lane (ylla)
f1. draco (Viscount)
f2. tie bomber (chrisol)
f3. south african rugby team, 2019 (Viscount)
f4. bartini beriev vva-14 (AFKAMC)
f5. tulpar (Nutfield)
f6. boeing 2707 (AFKAMC)
Just to get us started…
11. NAKED MOLE RAT
24. STEVE BUSCEMI IN RESERVOIR DOGS
13. BREAST CANCER AWARENESS RIBBON
29. TARAMASALATA
33. BARBARA CARTLAND
25. AMAZON RIVER DOLPHIN
15. HAMMERSMITH AND CITY LINE
4. SHEFFIELD UNITED’S AWAY KIT
2. PEPPA PIG
20. CANDY FLOSS
31: EARTHWORM
21. THE BRITISH EMPIRE
31. EARTHWORM
8. SISTER SERVANTS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT OF PERPETUAL ADORATION
32. TRIANGLES WORN BY SOME CONCENTRATION CAMP INMATES
17. LADY PENELOPE CREIGHTON-WARD’S CAR
17. LADY PENELOPE CREIGHTON-WARD’S CAR
(pipped to the post by Nutfield)
Just like old times (Maybe with a different name ;))
19. DON CESAR HOTEL
18. COCKTAIL MADE FROM GIN, GRENADINE AND EGG WHITE
I admire your enthusiasm and speed, Nutfield… but let some of us thickos have a go!
Ahhaha the penny finally drops… welcome back gothnak 🙂
*Waves*
(And hey, i keep missing weeks whilst house hunting in Italy!)
True, true… and on those weeks I kept thinking to myself “where’s gothnak when you need him?”
Well, I’m sure there’s worse ways to spend your Friday. Where are you in Italy? North or south? I live in Sicily myself… I’m sure you’re managing fine but if you’re around these parts and need a hand, let me know!
Ah cool!
I’m in Todi, looking for a villa in Umbria/Tuscany. Seen a few, one got beaten to, another the sellers can’t work out how to split the money as they are getting divorced, and a third is too expensive at the moment :(.
Still, got a few to still go and see that we like the look of.
Ah, what a lovely part of the world. Good luck!
3. RAF TORNADOS DURING THE GULF WAR
I thought they might be in there somewhere; unfortunately, my search for “GLF” didn’t pick up “GL F”.
19. DON CESAR HOTEL
1. JAIPUR
Every single answer I’ve got has already been found by someone else!
There are still 14 available as of this moment 🙂
Going down rapidly! (And they’re all the ones I can’t get…)
9. ROSA CONSTANCE SPRY
5. THE FINANCIAL TIMES
22. MONUMENT TO SOVIET TANK CREWS IN PRAGUE
26. ONE HUNDRED YEN BANKNOTE
28. HMS KENYA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountbatten_pink)
30…. I’m stuck on Band-aid sport with… something and something… but I feel I’m way off the mark
I had BONDED SPIRIT WITH SOUND AND TWENTY ONE
Turns out you weren’t too far off the mark with Band-Aid after all.
27. PEACH BLOSSOM
I thought 23 might be a Lagoon, but i can’t see how the one in Mexico is HTT.
23. HUTT LAGOON (thanks Nutfield!)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutt_Lagoon
2 Peppa Pig
Right, back to work, enjoy!
14. ALECIA BETH MOORE
16. GALAH
Left to find, I think:
6. PLRTSD JMR
7. NTHR DFN PLT NCC R M
10. SSS TG R
12. D RN R
30. BN DDSP RTWT HSN DNDT WN T YN
30 looks like … TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY ONE – eight words, so there’s three to get out of the BNDDSPRT…
Nice spot!! Though it would be BNDDSPR, no?
Very true!
(Also thanks to Nutfield for getting the twenty one bit!)
something something PRE TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY ONE maybe?
Edit: Any chance BAND AIDS PRE TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY ONE?
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/band-aid-bandages-skin-tone-diverse-black-brown-johnson-and-johnson-plaster-a9563706.html
This was a classic joint effort:
captaincabinets – BAND-AIDS
AFKAMC: PRE
ylla – TWO THOUSAND AND
Nutfield – TWENTY ONE
Apologies if I’ve missed anyone, and well done us!
Down to:
6. PLRTSD JMR
Haha, brilliant. Go team!
Apparently the Pantone colours of the year for 2021 are “Illuminating”, which looks like yellow to me, and “Ultimate Gray”, which I think might be gray (or grey). So not much use here then. But I thought you might like to know.
7. ONE THIRD OF NEAPOLITAN ICE CREAM
12. DARIA-I-NOOR
16. GALAH? Sort of half pink.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galah
10. USS SEA TIGER
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Petticoat
(I did wonder about tigers before…)
Down to:
6. PLRTSD JMR
6. PLEUROTUS DJAMOR, commonly known as the pink oyster mushroom.
Quote: “a list of ‘30 things wot are or were pink’”. There follows a list of 33 things.
I don’t know whether Tim should be given arithmetic homework or threatened with being made to do lines.
Maybe three of them ‘aren’t’ pink? Ah-ha!