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.
Every puzzle piece in this jigsaw foxer features an image taken from a Wikipedia page beginning with the letter *REDACTED*. To fully defox the puzzle, supply Roman with a list of all 36 Wikipedia pages.
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SOLUTIONS
Last week’s collage theme: Yevgeny Prigozhin (defoxed by Colonel_K)
Component demystifiers: Colonel_K, Electric Dragon, ylla, AbyssUK, and Aergistal
C6 – Waterloo helmet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterloo_Helmet
C1 – Wilhelm Scream
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_scream
E4 – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_Guthrie
Oh, of course! Well caught!
B3 – Whip-Ma-Whop-Ma-Gate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whip-Ma-Whop-Ma-Gate
A6 – Westland Westminster
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westland_Westminster
Think this is A4, isn’t it?
You are correct! The Chinese calligraphy is not a Westland Westminster at all!
To be fair I don’t read Chinese so if it says “Westland Westminster” I’ll look like a right Charlie.
E2. Workers’ Party of Korea – The Monument to Party Founding in Pyongyang, erected in 1995
C3. Wagner Group rebellion
ETA: A1. Waders – Fly fishermen using chest waders to stay dry
B6 – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westphalian_Dachsbracke
B5. Werner Voss – WW1 German ace, Fokker triplane
ETA: F1. Worry beads – “Loud” method
F4. Wētā – Cook Strait giant wētā (Deinacrida rugosa)
B1. Walt Whitman – American poet, essayist, and journalist
ETA: A5. Waugoshance Light – ruined lighthouse, northern end of Lake Michigan
F2 – Weiss WM-21 Sólyom
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weiss_WM-21_S%C3%B3lyom
A2 – Wolf-whistling
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf-whistling
Re: D6. I reckon it’s the London Planetarium (or a facsimile of it – green dome, planet with ring) but can’t figure out what W it might be.
It’s not ‘Westminster’.
Wax Museum? London Planetarium no longer, it’s now Madam Tussaurds.
Here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wax_museum
A6 – Wikipedia Logo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_logo
F3 – Wimbledon Championships (plaque commemorating the longest match in the tournament’s history)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wimbledon_Championships
E6. WKW Wilk – (Wolf) is a modern anti-materiel and/or sniper rifle produced in Poland by the Zakłady Mechaniczne Tarnów factory, Vietnamese soldier using
D5 – Witchfinder General (the Vincent Price film, though the title also redirects to the “Matthew Hopkins” page with the same image)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witchfinder_General_(film)
Re: D1. It’s Old Abe (May 27, 1861 – March 26, 1881), a bald eagle and the mascot of the 8th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment in the American Civil War. The picture is labelled “Old Abe and the color guard at Vicksburg, July 1863”
Can’t figure out what W it belongs with; it’s not 8th Wisconsin Volunteer… nor War Eagle.
ETA: It’s plain, old WISCONSIN. (mumbles) Stupid Wisconsin.
It’s just Wisconsin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin
(if you click on a picture in Wiki, then click “More Details”, it shows you the WikiMedia page, which tells you what other pages contain the picture.)
ETA: oh I see you got there before me 🙂
F6 – Wingtip Vortices (thanks for the tip, Electric Dragon – I identified the plane itself ages ago!)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wingtip_vortices
C2. War of the Breton Succession
(Battle of Auray as shown in Froissart’s Chronicles)
E5 – Warsaw Metro (Ratusz Arsenał Station)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Metro
C4 – Widget
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widget_%28beer%29
E1. Wartburg (marque) – if I understand correctly it’s actually a Melkus RS 1000 racing car, just has the same sort of engine as the Wartburg 353
(The front end doesn’t look too bad, but it all goes wrong from the windshield back).
Remaining (e&oe):
A3
B2, B4
C5
D2, D3, D4
E3
F5
B4 is the Shivering Sands Sea Forts under https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitstable
D3 is the Wedgwood Portland Vase
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedgwood
A3 is Waist chop, a form of execution used in ancient China
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waist_chop
D4 is Women’s test cricket
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_Test_cricket
C5 is a picture of the Wounded Knee massacre aftermath visible on the page of the Wounded Knee Massacre.
D2 is a V2 “Wunderwaffe”, meaning “wonder-weapon”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wunderwaffe
B2 is Wheelchair basketball
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheelchair_basketball
Just E3. and F5. left to deduce.
It’s an odd emblem on F5’s hat. On the assumption that it’s two things crossed, they most resemble hurling sticks; but then he looks navy-ish and I can’t imagine any paddles with that sort of bend.
Re: C4. There’s a potential ‘Beverage of THC’ in the ‘Badger’ cocktail: bottom half Smirnoff Ice, top half Guinness.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/fancy-pint-badger-pub-creates-7393359
E3. Waterloo & City line – The Waterloo and City Electrical Underground Railway, view at entance to air-lock
Nice find! Not easy to find at all.
Regarding F5, it seems to me to be three similar symbols (barrels?), separated by line like in heraldry. But I can t find anything like it. Also, I wonder if this is a peaked cap or a more civilian version, like for a driver or a firefighter. That feather is also puzzling me.
F5. Worshipful Company of Vintners – found on the Swan Upping page
(I did have the feeling he was Waterman-adjacent in some way).
Re: E3. That was fairly straightforward, once I gave up on the idea of it being a Sherlock Holmes adventure (the Engineer’s Thumb): “victorian illustration underground railway”, black & white.
I was close the A3. Waist Chop, finding a couple of victims, but I was using the phrase “cut in half” when the actual page uses “cut in two”. Ah well.
Re F5, I was so far away, looking for police or railway company badges.
Re E3, I came very close when looking for tunnelling shield techniques in Wikipedia. I just didn’t realise it until you had find it.
Re A3, I followed a totally different route. I looked for Wikipedia picture about dismemberment, found the article on the subject. Then, I checked for related article and found that there was Waist Chop in the list.