Friday Foxer #52

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1. Lets get the red herrings out of the way 😀

   B3 YULE
   D6 HAPPY
   E3 CHRISTMAS

2. E9 MUEZZIN

3. L5 – FREUD

   • J1. SNOG

4. H10 TINIAN (island in the Northern Marianas, of Enola Gay fame)

   …E3 CHRISTMAS is also an island

5. Thought illustrators for a bit with GOREY, DORE and BLAKE

   Also, there is ‘The Rock’ in the middle 🙂

6. F2 – LACONIC?

7. I shall stop for now with some very christmassy answers:

   E1 – ANTICHRIST
   C1 – LONGPIG (What cannibals called human meat)
   G1 – COAL (The best christmas present!)

8. G3 GERUDO (female pirates in The Legend of Zelda series)

9. Seasons Greetings, Foxers and Defoxers.

   Thanks to Roman for a year of unsung effort, and others who have contributed Foxers to challenge the grey matter during the most recent circum-navigation of the sun.

   • Seconded. Many thanks to Roman for all the brain-tickling, and a very happy festive season to all my fellow loiterers on the Tally Ho Corner!

     • Thanks to Roman and Tim for the Weekly Foxers! I wish to everyone a Happy Christmas and Great New Year Eve !!

10. Few suggestion:
    C6 – PLANT
    D6 – HILL
    H4 or F5 – GUNTHER
    L7 – KOALA

    Could we have an Australian Theme?

11. Footling about in the bottom left corner, I can make:
    K3. GORGON(s) + K4. DREY (a squirrel’s nest)
    or
    L1. OGRE(s) + K3. GROAN(s)
    or
    M1/K3. GOONS

    For non-specific words, there’s H9. BLACK

    And missing off the almost Christmas list J3. HEROD

12. One answer down, seventeen to go. Roman says the theme was partially identified on Christmas Eve.

13. That one is tricky. Among the theme, we could have Christmas Season, Islam, psychoanalyst, islands, illustrators, cannibalism and Christmas Gift/Present. But none of them seems to fit.

    I would keep looking tomorrow.

14. K4 DREYFUS – but I can’t see that he matches any mentioned theme!

    If the theme has been mentioned, however obliquely, rather than just having a relevant word, I think we’re down to islands, nuclear things, illustrators, cannibals, meat, pirates…

    Does any of that help? No. 😀

    • Two answers down, sixteen to go.

    • Alfred Dreyfus was originally sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil’s Island.

      If the theme _is_ Tropical Islands, which of the two answers given so far (Christmas or Tinian) is correct?

15. D8. PAPILLON

    ‘Devil’s Island’ or ‘Island prisons’? Not spotted St Helena, Elba or Robben or even Riker’s yet.

16. C4. DRY GUILLOTINE
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_Guillotine
    Prisoner slang for Devil’s Island and title of book by former prisoner #46,635, René Belbenoît.

17. K6. Charles DERUDIO
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_DeRudio
    A life story too awesome for film: Italian aristocrat, took part in attempted assassination of Napoleon III, escaped Devil’s Island, fought in American Civil War and at Little Bighorn.

    (Still not sure what the first correct answer was).

    • If it’s island prisons more generally then THE ROCK would be a possibility – any more Alcatraz about?

      (Also D6 HAGRID – is Azkaban an island prison??)

      • C3 PINCHGUT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Denison

        Now we’re on to something 🙂

18. G2 OCALAN https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdullah_%C3%96calan

    ‘From 1999 until 2009, he was the sole prisoner in İmralı prison in the Sea of Marmara, where he is still held’

19. Well then, the answer in the bottom left probably is K3. GORGONA (aka Colombia’s Alcatraz)
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgona_Island_(Colombia)

    As to Azkaban being an island, apparently it’s “in the middle of the North Sea”.

    GTG as it’s Only Connect time, but there were some nasty Russian/Soviet ones to look up afterwards; plenty of cannibals.

    • See you after Only Connect 😀

20. E7 STROUD, surname of the Birdman

21. L7 KAALA PANI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular_Jail (or possibly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaalapani the film)

22. D9. PYATAK – Russian facility on Ognenny Ostrov (Fire Island)
    (not one of those I was thinking of, as that’s the Nazino Tragedy)

    Isolates A3. LEGO !?
    Lego Prison Island 60130, part of the City set?
    https://www.lego.com/en-gb/product/prison-island-60130

    • 13 down, 5 to go – I think.

23. H1 BASTOY https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bast%C3%B8y_Prison

24. I5 ANGLIN – name of two prisoners who made an escape attempt from Alcatraz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_1962_Alcatraz_escape_attempt

    • Looks like it _is_ The Rock, starting at i4.

25. H11. Alija IZETBEGOVIC – former President of Bosnia-Herzegovina, imprisoned on Goli Otok
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goli_Otok

26. Woah! That was fast !!

    So last two should be:
    G12 – Edmond DANTES from The Count of Monte Cristo, which was imprisoned in Chateau d’If
    F10 – Jacob ZUMA, South African politician imprisoned on Robben Island with Nelson Mandela

    Full list looks like:
    A3 – LEGO
    C3 – PINCHGUT
    C4 – DRY GUILLOTINE
    D6 – HAGRID
    D8 – PAPILLON
    D9 – PYATAK
    E7 – STROUD
    F10 – ZUMA
    G2 – OCALAN
    G12 – DANTES
    H1 – BASTOY
    H11 – IZETBEGOVIC
    I4 – THE ROCK
    I5 – ANGLIN
    K3 – GORGONA
    K4 – DREYFUS
    K6 – DERUDIO
    L7 – KAALA PANI

    That’s it !!

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