Friday Foxer #105

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 that appeared on newspaper front-pages in 2022’ (‘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 ‘PAKISTAN FLOODS’ was present it might appear as PKS TNFLDS. HIMARS would be HMRS.

*Hyphens are treated as spaces. Apostrophes are ignored.

1. RCH R DMFRR
2. NFLT BLDCLRTR
3. NR STNCR SC
4. TL VSDSLP
5. TWT TRLYFFS
6. THMR CHN TFDT H
7. CHTQNST TTN
8. S TMDCK
9. T RCNT GRY
10. CL DTM TSP
11. VKS NTCH K

12. JNJ YNZ D
13. NRDST RMS BTG
14. L ZN CL LDSL V
15. THTL SLN S
16. FSNG NTN
17. DBB SVJ CKSNWM NSHLT HRGN STN
18. SH PLS TF RNHN DR DNDS VNY RS
19. LVST RMDLT TC
20. CHR LS
21. DNTS KCDM CRGN LDRMTHT R
22. LSSR SS SHL

23. NR THKR NMSS LTSTS
24. NSG HTSF NLPHT
25. LB RTNFKHR SN
26. RC RDHGHT MPRT RNN TDKN GDM
27. T HFL GSHPFR S SSBL CKSF LT
28. SMBN KM NFRD
29. NRCGN SDRFRNDMS
30. SL FDNS CTLN D
31. SHTS GB LMRL YN
32. CPD T TPL TNGR MNY
33. L WSHM LTNSF RSTWN LS SS SNNF RMLN

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SOLUTIONS

Last week’s cluster foxer:

James Baldwin (defoxed by Aergistal)
a1. baldwin rf-16 sharknose (Aergistal)
b1. john grimes (Electric Dragon, Aergistal)
c1. giovanni’s room (Electric Dragon)
a2. another country (Aergistal)
b2. cambridge union debating chamber (Electric Dragon)

Harriers (defoxed by Colonel_K)
d1. montagu (Colonel_K)
e1. ringtail (Aergistal)
d2. la reunion (Aergistal)
d3. circus (Electric Dragon)
d4. marsh (Aergistal)

The Orient Express (defoxed by Aergistal and ylla))
c2. orient express by jean-michel jarre (aergistal)
a3. call of cthulu (Aergistal)
b3. from russia with love (Colonel_K)
c3. heart of china (Aergistal)
c4. dracula (Colonel_K)

Tom Horn (defoxed by ylla)
e2. steve mcqueen (Aergistal)
e3. horn-balanced rudder (Colonel_K)
e4. snail’s love dart (Aergistal)
d5. scout (Aergistal)
e5. julian gallows (ylla)

Things that have been shortened (defoxed by Colonel_K)
a4. once upon a time in america (Aergistal)
b4. saltburn pier (Electric Dragon)
a5. hockenheimring (Electric Dragon, Colonel_K)
b5. gog.com (Electric Dragon)
c5. hollywood sign (Aergistal)

27 Comments

  1. 17. DOBBS V JACKSON WOMEN’S HEALTH ORGANISATION (sic: should be ORGANIZATION)
    33. LEWIS HAMILTON’S FIRST WINLESS SEASON IN FORMULA ONE
    25. LIBERATION OF KHERSON

  2. 19. LIVE-STREAMED LETTUCE
    (I was confident of the first part and was going to put the second as a joke, but then remembered the end-days of the Truss premiership).

    ETA: 9. TRUCE (?) IN TIGRAY

  3. Remaining (e&oe):
    3. NR STNCR SC – something something Rescue?
    7. CHTQNST TTN – something Institution?
    11. VKS NTCH K
    12. JNJ YNZ D
    14. L ZN CL LDSL V
    15. THTL SLN S
    22. LSSR SS SHL
    31. SHTS GB LMRL YN – Kim Kardashian wore Marilyn Monroe’s dress, but I can’t see that working syntactically

  4. Following Tim’s reinstatement of an omitted consonant in 29. it should probably read
    UNRECOGNISED REFERENDUMS
    (undoubtedly a debate to be had on whether it in fact ought to be Referenda).

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