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 you might find in a 19th Century painting’ (‘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 Fighting Temeraire’ was present it might appear as THFG HTNGTM RR. Sunflower would be SNFLWR.
*Hyphens are treated as spaces. Apostrophes are ignored.
1. FF TSDS R
2. TH RSK L LSNR G
3. CDMMYL LW
4. MRHR TN SFQT
5. RNTLSM
6. SC NSFR MT HLDTST MNT
7. FRN GSQD
8. TGRN TR PC LST RM
9. DLSQ
10. BLCKB NP SD
11. STRND VRN GH SSN
12. GMTN
13. FLSBR GR
14. LPNMST FFSR NMTNGDS TR SSDT RVLLR
15. THN NT HWV
16. LZB THSDDL
17. PNTN F
18. LNL LVN VNBRTNSK YPRN CSSFSY NWT TGNS TNSYN
19. T HPLCFWS TMN ST RBLZ
20. NP LNCR SSNGTHL PS
21. THW RDNV RMR
22. LMMN KNNSMTHR
23. SNRS
24. GRN MLK
25. RRKSDRF T
26. BSNTH
27. T HPT HS SFWR
28. MNBSPSSN GRS
29. MNTSS TDB T
30. JM SBBTTM CNL LW HSTLRSMM
31. M S SLL
32. MDNHDRL WYB RDG
33. ND L Z DS C NFNR CT CSWT HWR CK DSH PNT HH PDM S S SFC
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SOLUTIONS
Last week’s cluster foxer:
The works of Mikhail Bulgakov (defoxed by Electric Dragon)
a1. Heart of a Dog (Aergistal)
b1. Ivan Vasilievich (Phlebas)
c1. The White Guard (Phlebas)
d1. Black Snow (Aergistal)
e1. The Master and Margarita (Colonel_K)
Anti-tank missiles (defoxed by Colonel_K)
a2. Spandrel
b2. Spike (Aergistal)
c2. Vigilant (unacom)
b3. MILAN (Electric Dragon)
b4. Ingwe (Phlebas)
Shepherding equipment (defoxed by Colonel_K)
d2. shears (Electric Dragon)
e2. scanner (Phlebas)
d3. collie (Aergistal)
e4. crook (Colonel_K)
e5. race (Colonel_K)
1931 (defoxed by Colonel_K)
a3. Ådalen shootings (Colonel_K)
a4. Capone convicted (Aergistal)
a5. Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, Moscow, destroyed (Phlebas)
b5. Cow’s Skull: Red, White and Blue painted (Phlebas)
c5. First FD loco built (Colonel_K)
SS Sirio (defoxed by Electric Dragon)
c3. Boniface Natter (Colonel_K)
c4. Captain Piccone (Colonel_K)
d4. Sirio (Aergistal)
d5. 24 March 1884 (Colonel_K)
e5. Lighthouse at Cape Palos (Electric Dragon)
6 – SCENES FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT
7 – FIRING SQUAD
30 – JAMES ABBOTT MCNEILL WHISTLER’S MUM
Back for the first time with intermittent internet from a rural valley in Umbria…
26 – ABSINTHE
32. MAIDENHEAD RAILWAY BRIDGE
15. THE NINTH WAVE
19. THE PALACE OF WESTMINSTER ABLAZE
21. THE WORD NEVERMORE
17. PONT NEUF
32 – MAIDENHEAD RAILWAY BRIDGE
16. ELIZABETH SIDDAL
14. ALPINE MASTIFFS REANIMATING A DISTRESSED TRAVELLER
(I only came up with the last three words out of my head!)
That wasn’t a reply…
5. ORIENTALISM?
5. ORIENTALISM
25. RORKES DRIFT
3. CADMIUM YELLOW (Mrs Nutfield)
20. NAPOLEON CROSSING THE ALPS
28 – OMNIBUS PASSENGERS
22 – LEMMINKAINEN’S MOTHER
33. An Idealized Scene of an Arctic Sea, with a Wrecked Ship on the Heaped Masses of Ice :p
2. THREE SKULLS ON RUG
9 – ODALISQUE
33. AN IDEALIZED SCENE OF AN ARCTIC SEA, WITH A WRECKED SHIP ON THE HEAPED MASSES OF ICE (otherwise known as The Sea of Ice)
8. TIGER IN A TROPICAL STORM
I’ve decided i’m going back to no internet after this one
18. LeoNiLLa iVaNoVNa BaRiaTiNSKY PRiNCeSS oF SaYN WiTTGeNSTeiN-SaYN
18 – LEONILLA IVANOVNA BARIATINSKAYA, PRINCESS OF SAYN-WITTGENSTEIN-SAYN
11. SATURN DEVOURING HIS SON
That’s a bit mean of him… (I was stuck at ‘endeavouring’)
24 – GERANIUM LAKE
“Geranium lake is an eosin-derived organic pigment highly employed by Van Gogh and his contemporaries.” https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0143720820305313
1. FF TSDS R
4. MRHR TN SFQT
10. BLCKB NP SD
12. GMTN
13. FLSBR GR
23. SNRS
27. T HPT HS SFWR
29. MNTSS TDB T
31. M S SLL
We’re also missing
4. MRHR TN SFQT
27. T HPT HS SFWR
aren’t we?
I must have been adding those in as you were commenting! (I’d have left it if I’d realised there were still so many, but never mind…)
23. SUNRISE – Monet’s Impression, Sunrise (inspired the name of the Impressionist movement)
13. FOLIES BERGERE, A bar at the – by Edouard Manet, 1882
4. MARIE-HORTENSE FIQUET – model, mistress and ultimately wife of Cezanne
ETA: 1. EFFETS DE SOIR – the change in light around sunset / twilight
27 – THE APOTHEOSIS OF WAR
10 – BLACK BEAN EPISODE
29. MONET’S STUDIO BOAT (Le Bateau-atelier)
Leaves:
12. GMTN – some place, probably in France ? / something Japanese by Hokusai / Hiroshige ?
31. M S SLL – Moses ? Muses ? Musée ??