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 Morocco’ (‘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 ‘Rif War’ was present it might appear as RFW R. Fez would be FZ.
*Hyphens are treated as spaces. Apostrophes are ignored.
1. NTTL S
2. T HYR SFL D
3. THC V SFHR CLS
4. LLTTRS VLT
5. CR KKFR ST
6. CHKND CH
7. DSS TRFN NL
8. SSR
9. FS SLTRDR
10. PNHR DBR
11. FLSM RGRT
12. GMR
13. RGCH GG
14. MRB NS LD
15. ZL LJTLS
16. RNDP LYRS
17. Y VSSN TLR NTSSHS
18. KTMRS BY
19. TNGRN
20. FRCSFR STHG HSP DR LWY
21. TRCL MBNGGT S
22. THBRT HPL CFT HWR LDTR DRGN ZTN
23. MRT HNDSS BLS
24. RPB LCFS L
25. THNR TH RNN DFTHW STR NSH RB RM
26. HC HMLG RRJ
27. FR CSLR GSTC RPLNT
28. NTF NGHLP HBT
29. FNDQ
30. PHN CNCLNY
31. SV NTYFVP RC NTFT HWR LDSPH SPHTR SRVS
32. L SLND
33. NFTR WBRD GST WNTW NS
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SOLUTIONS
Last week’s wordchain:
1. NIZAM (Electric Dragon)
2. ZAMBEZI (ylla)
3. ZINC (ylla)
4. INCUBATOR (Zwack23)
5. TORGAU (Electric Dragon)
6. AUBERGE (Nutfield)
7. GEPARD (Colonel_K)
8. ARDFINNAN (ylla)
9. ANPO (Nutfield)
10. POTASH (ylla)
11. SHARKLETS (Phlebas)
12. LETSIE (Phlebas)
13. SIEN (Phlebas)
14. ENCHANTER (Nutfield)
15. TERMINUS (Phlebas)
16. NUSANTARA (Electric Dragon, Nutfield)
17. TARANAKI (Electric Dragon, Phlebas)
18. KINGSTON (Nutfield)
19. STONEMAN (ylla)
20. MANDYLION (Colonel_K)
21. LIONEL (Nutfield, Phlebas)
22. NELSON (Nutfield)
23. SONDERBUND (Nutfield)
24. UNDERCROFT (Electric Dragon)
31. SEVENTY FIVE PERCENT OF THE WORLD’S PHOSPHATE RESERVES
25. THE NORTHERN END OF THE WESTERN SAHARA BERM
19. TANGERINE
2. THE YEARS OF LEAD
3. THE CAVES OF HERCULES
20. AFRICA’S FIRST HIGH SPEED RAILWAY
17. YVES SAINT LAURENT’S ASHES
30. A PHOENICIAN COLONY
26. HICHAM EL GUERROUJ
21. TREE CLIMBING GOATS
16. RONDA PLAYERS
18. KIT MORESBY
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sheltering_Sky
27. AFRICA’S LARGEST CAR PLANT
28. NEO-TIFINAGH ALPHABET
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tifinagh#Neo-Tifinagh
24. REPUBLIC OF SALÉ
33 – ONE OF TROWBRIDGE’S TWIN TOWNS
22 – THE BIRTHPLACE OF THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION
4 – ELLIOTT ROOSEVELT
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_Roosevelt_(general)
9. (A) FOSSIL TRADER
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moroccan_fossil_trade
Probably.
I’m not doing well this week. I was drawn to the gothic horror that would be a Fossil Toreador.
11. is neither a False nor Fools Margaret
and 14. doesn’t seem to be Emir Bean Salad, whatever/whoever that might be.
Also no Disaster Funnel
Aha. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Annual
7. DISASTER OF ANNUAL
And you were pretty close with 11 – FELIS MARGARITA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand_cat
15. ZELLIJ TILES
ETA: 10. PANHARD EBR ?
(’50s wheeled reconnaissance vehicle – Morocco had 36 at one point)
I might have accidentally gone Christmas shopping instead of foxering today…
29 FUNDUQ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caravanserai
I really want to (re)read the book of Michael Palin’s Sahara now, only I think I’ve tidied him all away somewhere…
32. ILSA LUND (Ingrid Bergmann in Casablanca)
14. is probably (someone (Umar?)) IBN (someone).
Remaining (e&oe):
1. NTTL S
5. CR KKFR ST
6. CHKND CH
8. SSR
12. GMR
13. RGCH GG
14. MRB NS LD
23. MRT HNDSS BLS
14. OMAR BEN SALAAD
https://tintin.fandom.com/wiki/Omar_Ben_Salaad
12. GOUMIER
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moroccan_Goumier
13. ERG CHIGAGA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erg_Chigaga
6. AICHA KANDICHA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aicha_Kandicha
8. ESSAOUIRA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essaouira
1. NTTL S
Not sure on this one, could be:
1. ANTI ATLAS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Atlas
23. MARATHON DES SABLES
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon_des_Sables
Well, I can’t find anything for 5. I will try again later, if it is not found.
5. CORK OAK FOREST – bulwark against desertification and can be harvested sustainably
Couldn’t see the forest for the trees – looked originally for … oak frost, but that seemed a nonsense.
I thought those all lived in Portugal!