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 ‘33 things wot existed/lasted for 33 years or less’ (‘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 the League of Nations was present it might appear as LGFN TN S. Prohibition would be PRHBTN.
*Hyphens are treated as spaces. Apostrophes are ignored.
1. WRSFT HR SS
2. BRST NSTRK
3. FR STT YRLBR DG
4. NTH NYR YH NTNST MND T HRW
5. NTFSCH STSCHRSCHTZWLL
6. DW RDNR
7. CLDFRT RSSB YMSY KN GR
8. RS HF RSTT
9. SV TBNND CT RZH VG
10. PTRSH LTNSGL KPN GCRR
11. THS NDY RRCH
12. P PPSXSP PC Y
13. T GFW RSNL YM PCS PR T
14. WRS WR DMST
15. SYL VPLTH
16. CKL NDSST N TSCPT LFN WZL ND
17. LNGPRL MNT
18. CLT CTGR
19. RFC RRFT HSCT TSHV TNB LL DG
20. RPB LCFP P RVLT
21. HNSCR NJ
22. PLPN NSNWR
23. FR NZSCHBRT
24. SR CHF RNSD KR
25. MPRNTR CTV
26. LNDNN DNRT HST RNRL WY
27. RDR M
28 BNN NDCLY D
29. HP PYTR
30. GRM NYSL VFF RWT HTHZP PLN
31. STFR NC SDM
32. BRT SHBNNBT TLS HPPT MKN
33. WLLSTW RSST TSST LL STBL DN GNT HWR LD
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SOLUTION
Last week’s wordchain:
1 – QUOLL (Nutfield, ylla)
2 – OLLANTAYTAMBO (ylla)
3 – BOVRIL (Phlebas)
4 – ILLINOIS (ylla)
5 – ISERE (Viscount)
6 – RETRIEVER (Phlebas)
7 – VERMIVOROUS (ylla)
8 – OUSTED (ylla)
9 – TEDDINGTON (ylla)
10 – ONIBABA (Mrs Nutfield)
11 – BAGHEERA (Nutfield)
12 – RADFAN (Colonel_K)
13 – FANTAIL (Phlebas)
14 – AILUROPHILE (Colonel_K)
15 – LEITH (ylla)
16 – THUMBSCREW (Phlebas)
17 – REWI (Nutfield)
18 – WIDOWMAKER (Nutfield)
19 – KERRUNCH (Nutfield)
20 – CHURCHWARDEN (ylla)
21 – DENVER (Nutfield)
22 – VERANDAH (ylla)
23 – AHWAHNEE (Viscount)
24 – NEEDHAM (Colonel_K)
3) FIRST TAY RAIL BRIDGE
1. WARS OF THE ROSES
15. SYLVIA PLATH
23. FRANZ SCHUBERT
27. RED RUM
29. HAPPY EATER (I always preferred it to the Little Chef!)
17. LONG PARLIAMENT
11) THOUSAND YEAR REICH
12) POPE PIUS X’S PAPACY
30. GERMANY’S LOVE AFFAIR WITH THE ZEPPELIN
31. looks like ST. FRANCIS DOME, but I’m not sure what that might be
ST FRANCIS DAM? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Francis_Dam
9. SOVIET BAN ON DOCTOR ZHIVAGO
16) AUCKLAND’S STINT AS CAPITAL OF NEW ZEALAND
16 – AUCKLAND’S STINT AS CAPITAL OF NEW ZEALAND
10. PETER SHILTON’S GOALKEEPING CAREER
18) CELTIC TIGER?
20. REPUBLIC OF UPPER VOLTA
33 – WILLIS TOWER’S STINT AS TALLEST BUILDING IN THE WORLD
26. LONDON AND NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY
27. RED RUM
31. ST FRANCIS DAM
28. BONNIE AND CLYDE
Some partial ones:
24. starts SEARCH FOR… the a two word name
32. BRITISH BAN ON BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN (take that Eisenstein)
I think I’ve had a snap with everyone now 😀
24. SEARCH FOR INS DAKAR
28) BONNIE AND CLYDE
32. BRITISH BAN ON BATTLESHIP POTEMPKIN
14. WARSAW RADIO MAST
21. HANSIE CRONJE (South African cricketer)
22 – PELOPONNESIAN WAR
13. TUG-OF-WAR AS AN OLYMPIC SPORT
21. HANSIE CROJNE 🙁
5. ANTIFASCHISTISCHER SCHUTZWALL
19……(Something) CAREER OF THE SCOTTISH AVIATION BULLDOG
RAF CAREER …
RAF?
25) something INTERACTIVE?
ETA:
EMPIRE INTERACTIVE? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_Interactive
EMPIRE.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_Interactive
7. CLOUD FORTRESS BY MASAYUKI NAGARE (Help from Mrs Nutfield).. 🙁
2. BURSTON STRIKE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burston_Strike_School
7) CLOUD FORTRESS…? (for the Cloud Captain?)
6. EDWARDIAN ERA? – or else EDWARD somebody
1901-1910 seems a perfectly valid answer to me.
4. ANTHONY RAY HINTON’S TIME ON DEATH ROW
(thankfully with a happy ending)
leaves:
8. RUSH FOR something or something FOREST?
We’re quick today!
Fell on it like a pack of something…
Might’ve been even quicker if it wasn’t for duplicated answers 😉
8. IRISH FREE STATE
Edit: oh no, missing a T
Boom, nice one!
Sounds right, but there’s a missing T.
I’ve rein(IrishFree)stated it.
Assuming Roman has missed out a T there to try and slow us down
This was solved fast!
Tim I hope you don’t mind but I have shamelessly stolen this week’s foxer for a forum game at Paradox OT. I thought that was a grognard rich environment and a good place to promote this site!
I don’t mind at all. Thanks for spreading the word.