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.
The honeycomb below is a fancy form of wordsearch in which every cell is used, and words can curl and zigzag but never overlap. Each hive foxer has a theme (some past ones: gloves, mazes, earthquakes, and The 39 Steps). Identifying the theme is a vital part of the defoxing process. Today’s puzzle is composed of 18 answers.
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SOLUTIONS
Last week’s geofoxer theme: 1888 (defoxed by Colonel_K)
a Katherine Mansfield born (Colonel_K)
b Lightship Elbe 3 launched (ylla)
c Van Gogh moves to Arles (Aergistal)
d Washington Bridge in NYC opened (Phlebas)
e John Logie Baird born (Nutfield, Colonel_K)
f Brienz station opened (Electric Dragon)
g Matchgirls’ strike, London (Phlebas)
h State Opera opened in Prague (Colonel K)
i Borki rail accident (Aergistal)
j Roland Garros born (Aergistal)
k Bertha Benz undertakes first ever long-distance car journey (Phlebas)
l Great fire of Umeå (Aergistal)
m Folly Point lighthouse, Jamaica built (Alison)
Some early ones which , as tradition dictates, will turn out to be red herrings
C1: MUON
E4: SHAGGY
D10: JOY
Missing letters on the side of the grid…
Also G2 – TARIQ? Maybe about Gibraltar?
And magically, they appeared! 🙂
That was magic!
Tariq is all I could make out of the q-without-u
F1 – PATRICK or PARTICK (As in Thistle)
L7 – RIGHT or M7 – TIGHT
K1 – DELAY
L4: TAU – which thematically fits with Muon
C8 – MOVING or D-8 LOVING
K3 – BUTTERFLY
This is surely one?
Tucked around M4 DANDRUFF!
I4: CONFIRM
M4 – DANDRUFF
Things that are lighter than air/get blown in a breeze?
J8: ICENI
Top right corner, NEVILLE (if names can be a thing here)
I4 – Something..COIN
F1 – PARTICLE (Maybe some kind before it)
Dandruff comes in particles, I suppose – do butterflies?
I1 – QED – QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS
So, different theories, i guess?
Maybe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deq_(tattoo)?
E2 – LITZ? (Wire Theory)
A1: LIMIT
D2: FLUSH or FLUSHED
Hmm, you know what fits everything together so far.. Dandruff.
Particle
QED was an old Dandruff product
Butterfly Rash causes dandruff
:p
Seems a bit flaky 🙂
A6 – ENEMA
Apparently the Neville Theory is that he’s the chosen one and not Harry Potter. (Or there’s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevillean_theory_of_Shakespeare_authorship I suppose…)
But the Butterfly Theorem is not at all the one I was thinking of. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_theorem
Could also be Grenville.
Both leave a nasty word from A7 though, so unlikely?
Oh, I was taking Neville *from* A7!
A6 ENEMA
B2 GONVILLE
D2: FITZPATRICK – author of a textbook on dermatology
also B4: VITILIGO – loss of pigment in the skin IIRC, like Michael Jackson in his later years
So far I’m also including Butterfly which can be the shape of a rash, and Dandruff
If you take both Vitiligo and Fitzpatrick, you’re seemingly stuck with C1: MURDER.
H8: DERMIS ?
either F9 or G11: PHOTO…
Ok, back to this…
I think the connection is ‘Skin’ rather than dandruff, and the reason for that is D9 – JAMES ALLEN whose skin was used to cover a book!
A4 – DIVE
M7 is indeed TIGHT (SKIN TIGHT)
H12 – WINE
D4 – DRUM
E7 – GREEN (WAAARGH)
I think it must be E4 SHAGREEN, the other letters are a bit abandoned otherwise.
G8 – DOE (In one direction…)
H4 – VELLUM
F6 or 7….FORE?….:s
I5 or J4 – ONION (Same letters)
I3 – SCALE
H5 – GRAFT
Might be G5 – RASH instead.
Right, back to work, almost there!
G8 DEGLOVING?? (Ouch)
Nutfield was right, then, with F7: Fore
It’s now F10: HYPODERMIS
and G13: XIPE TOTEC – the Flayed One