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.
Word chains are composed of 24 words. A word can be any length and is linked to the next word in the chain by its last two or three letters. For instance ‘honeysuckle’ might be followed by ‘leviathan’. ‘Handel’ could come next. Then ‘delta’. And so on. Clues are provided but beware, six of them – the green italicised ones – have been shuffled. For example “A famous one was composed in the year this man was born” probably doesn’t refer to word #8
1. This Buchenwald inmate has a comestible named after them
2. A ship that fired cruise missiles into Syria during the civil war
3. A word that can go before ferret, goat, and rabbit
4. He died while staying in this hotel
5. This village
6. A word that can go before giraffe, foam, and python
7. Aspartame does this
8. A famous one was composed in the year this man was born
9. A trawler that participated in an unusual rescue on the day this woman was executed
10. Almost inevitable in this game
11. Players of this game have access to one
12. The Scandinavian artist responsible for this iconic label
13. The one that played in this year’s Ryder Cup was the first to do so
14. A real and a fictional horror flick
15. An item used as a weapon by ne’er-do-wells like these
16. Stopped an arquebus bullet? Pray your surgeon has one of these
17. This tram’s home
18. A train that terminates here
19. There’d be no point owning an implement like this if you didn’t like them
20. He was awarded his country’s highest military decoration in the year this woman died
21. A seafarer executed as a pirate in the year this seafarer was born
22. Standing at the eastern end of this London street, you can see a surgical instrument, a kitchen gadget, and a wolf’s head
23. This German schloss was the scene of fierce fighting in the month this tank was KOed
24. Something you might eat during a visit to 5
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SOLUTIONS
Last week’s defoxing party exited the chronodungeon with all 142 jewels and 16 HP.
Mapmakers:
v66 Mrs Nutfield
v67 Nutfield
v69 Phlebas
v70 Colonel_K
w66 Phlebas
w67 Colonel_K
w68 Electric Dragon
w69 Colonel_K
w70 Colonel_K
x66 Mrs Nutfield
x67 Colonel_K
x68 Mrs Nutfield
x69 Phlebas
x70 Mrs Nutfield, Nutfield
y66 Colonel_K
y67 Phlebas
y68 Phlebas
y69 Nutfield
y70 Nutfield
z66 Colonel_K
z67 Colonel_K
z69 Nutfield
z70 Colonel_K
Unmapped squares:
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4) MIKHAIL LESIN?
13) This will be either AUSTRIAN or NORWEGIAN
5) MANAROLA (http://earthporm.com/18-stunning-cliff-side-villages/ – 6th picture down)
24* “The local wine, called Sciacchetrà, is especially renowned”
It’s the description above :).
I read it twice trying to figure it out!
I’ve stayed there, so i saw it wasn’t solved and added it, then realised your answer was the same number ;).
8) ORATORIO
The woman in 9 is Gabrielle Petit, executed on 1st April 1916 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabrielle_Petit
Armed trawler OLIVINE rescues crew of Zeppelin LZ.48 off Margate.
5. RIOMAGGIORE (I’ve stayed in the yellow building mid left)
6. RETICULATED
15. are Thuggees, given to strangling victims with GARROTEs, or using KATAR daggers
18 is Greymouth NZ, so might be TRANZALPINE https://www.greatjourneysofnz.co.nz/tranzalpine/
https://goo.gl/maps/E8AjEP2W913Bv2ze6
3. SABLE?
19. PINEAPPLE
True, but a four letter overlap isn’t usually allowed…
Yeah, but i found that exact pic, so must be :p.
I was more doubting the train, but can’t find another named one
21 is the figurehead of HMS Benbow (https://www.alamy.com/the-figurehead-of-hms-benbow-launched-in-1813-in-portsmouth-historic-dockyard-it-represents-vice-admiral-john-benbow-1653-1702-image341667983.html), and Benbow was born in 1653
Could be INGLE (which would fit with LEADENHALL)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Ingle
(And 4 LESIN would fit in at 20)
22. FENCHURCH? (Has the wolf’s head pump?)
We’re in the same place, then – the Scalpel is on Leadenhall Street, and it runs more east to west, but who knows 🙂
22 is probably LEADENHALL – the wolf’s head is on https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/09/03/the-pump-of-death-2/, and the Scalpel is a building. Not sure about the cooking implement..
https://goo.gl/maps/iStZQ1U5oUTt8qqx8
3. ANGORA
8* ORATORIO
5. RIOMAGGIORE
6. RETICULATED
18. TRANZALPINE
19. PINEAPPLE
4* LESIN
21. INGLE
22. LEADENHALL
The schloss in 23 might be Allner, mentioned at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/97th_Infantry_Division_(United_States), which would make the month April 1945
The game in 10 is Redneck Rampage. The most obvious near-inevitability would be flatulence, but I haven’t come up with a synonym that fits with OLIVINE.
The game in 11 is Black Book. Encyclopedia? Deck?
Inebriation, maybe? I don’t know how inevitable it is!
Alcohol is one of the powerups, and the more you have the less co-ordinated you are, so I like inebriation
20. Aretha Franklin died in 2018. Highest military decoration recipients:
US Medal of Honor: BRITT SLABINSKI, GARLIN CONNER, JOHN CHAPMAN, RONALD SHURER, JOHN CANLEY
Dutch Order of William: ROY DE RUITER
17 looks like SINTRA, although I haven’t found the tram with a trailer
https://www.flickr.com/photos/d_hobbins/27719824922
Here it is!
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.8112532,-9.4560952,3a,75y,297.19h,88.43t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1skR1c4RZEJxSBhm3decICVQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en
1. MAX HAMBURGER?
13. austriAN or norwegiAN
14. ANTRUM: The Deadliest Film Ever Made
15. RUMAL = kerchief
24. PECORINO?
That could fit at 12 before NORWEGIAN.
1 HAMBURGER?
2 A ship that fired cruise missiles into Syria during the civil war
3 ANGORA
8* ORATORIO
5 RIOMAGGIORE
6 RETICULATED
7 Aspartame does this
?
9 OLIVINE
10 INEBRIATION?
11 Players of this game have access to one
24*? PECORINO?
13 AUSTRIAN/NORWEGIAN
14 ANTRUM
15 RUMAL
?
17 SINTRA
18 TRANZALPINE
19 PINEAPPLE
4* LESIN
21 INGLE
22 LEADENHALL
23 ALLNER?
?
Moveable feast:
– The Scandinavian artist responsible for this iconic label
– Stopped an arquebus bullet? Pray your surgeon has one of these
– He was awarded his country’s highest military decoration in the year this woman died
12* at 24. Scandinavian artist = Einar NERMAN
The character is on the Solstickan matchbox.
I thought the suggested answer for 1 was meant sarcastically; might as well be Kurt Frankfurter or Johnny Kebabs.
Re: 2
I was looking at Russians. The Wikipedia page for 3M-54 Kalibr mentions some surface vessels and submarines, but none of the names fit.
Re: 16
Ambroise Paré published “The method of curing wounds caused by arquebus and firearms” in 1545. He devised what he called the “Bec de Corbeau” (“crow’s beak”), a predecessor to modern haemostats. So I’m wondering if its something in the Hemostat / forceps area.
Well, there is a Max Hamburger in this list, and nothing else is jumping out – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prisoners_of_Buchenwald – although it makes the clue kind of a joke.
I’m more sarcastic than phlebas, I think!
The inmate in question isn’t Hamburger, but is on that list.
7 might be EDULCORATE or similar – see https://comparewords.com/edulcorate/sweeten
1. MAFALDA (or Princess Mafalda)( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafaldine)
making
2. DAGESTAN (https://navalpost.com/which-cruise-missile-is-stronger-tomahawk-or-kalibr/)
1 MAFALDA
2 DAGESTAN
3 ANGORA
8* ORATORIO
5 RIOMAGGIORE
6 RETICULATED
7 EDULCORATE
16* Stopped an arquebus bullet? Pray your surgeon has one of these
9 OLIVINE
10 INEBRIATION?
11 Players of this game have access to one
24* PECORINO?
13 NORWEGIAN?
14 ANTRUM
15 RUMAL
20* He was awarded his country’s highest military decoration in the year this woman died (2018)
17 SINTRA
18 TRANZALPINE
19 PINEAPPLE
4* LESIN
21 INGLE
22 LEADENHALL
23 ALLNER
12* NERMAN
Pecorino is wrong, but you are looking for an Italian food with ‘e’ as its second letter.
16 could be something like TEREBELLUM TOOL, but that is two words, so I can’t quite make it fit.
https://piratesurgeon.com/pages/surgeon_pages/foreign_object_wounds4.html
If anyone has a copy of the excellent 7/6 ‘Daily Mail’ edition of Nuttall’s Standard Dictionary (“Based on the labours of the most EMINENT LEXICOGRAPHERS”) the answer to “Stopped an arquebus bullet…” can be found on the same page as:
************ – divination by barley-meal
******* – the bridge, no wider than a single thread of a spider’s web, and sharper than a keen sword’s edge, over Hell, leading into Paradise…
***** – an elevated structure for offering sacrifices
Alphitomancy, As-Sirat, Altar.
So it’s the AL…SI(N) answer…
I realise I got confused because answer 16 is actually at 16!
16-at-16 could be ALPHONSIN, although google knows nothing about arquebus bullets in relation. https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/alphonsin#English
1 MAFALDA
2 DAGESTAN
3 ANGORA
8* ORATORIO
5 RIOMAGGIORE
6 RETICULATED
7 EDULCORATE
20* He was awarded his country’s highest military decoration in the year this woman died (2018)
9 OLIVINE
10 INEBRIATION?
11 Players of this game have access to one
24* Something you might eat during a visit to 5
13 NORWEGIAN?
14 ANTRUM
15 RUMAL
16* ALPHONSIN
17 SINTRA
18 TRANZALPINE
19 PINEAPPLE
4* LESIN
21 INGLE
22 LEADENHALL
23 ALLNER
12* NERMAN
7. Edulcorate
24* TESTAROLI
9. Olivine
Leaves:
10. Inebriation – not stated to be wrong
11. “Players of this game [Black Book] have access to one”
20* “He was awarded his country’s highest military decoration in the year this woman died [2018]”
13. Austrian / Norwegian
10. Inebriation
11. ONOMASTICON
20* Garlin Murl CONNOR
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garlin_Murl_Conner
13. Norwegian
(Actually, maybe it isn’t, as it’s most often spelled with an E not a second O)
Anyway, as if there are bonus points on offer, the tank in 23. is an M5 Stuart near La Pointe des Trois Communes, knocked out during the Battle of Authion in April 1945 in the French Alps.