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. All are welcome to participate.
Below is a list of ‘33 Things Wot You Might Find in a Bank’ (‘things’ is used in its broadest possible sense). Entries have been stripped of vowels, numbers, and punctuation and have had any inter-word spaces repositioned*. For example, if Ned Kelly was present he might appear as NDKL LY. Safe would be SF.
* Hyphens are treated as spaces. Apostrophes are ignored.
1. HXTN
2. CHNSW LL
3. LSTR NGVLT
4. DN LDDFRZ
5. JYBN G
6. THR MCLNC
7. R NGLN
8. MR TGGDVSR
9. TL LRSWCKT
10. DYPC K
11. CMPNDNT RST
12. T MLCK
13. RB RTLRYPR KR
14. MG NTCN KCHRC TRRC GNTNLN
15. JNTCCN T
16. T HRHLB LCLV
17. CHFR SKFF CR
18. SL NTLRMB TTN
19. CNN BSFCTRY
20. TH NSVLS
21. LSLT R
22. THFT HR SDYBN KMS SCR
23. GRGMNWR NG
24. LND RDMNY
25. TH MSSTR NSLT
26. T HSPR DGL
27. SLNT RL
28. THPNBR RS
29. DMN DDRFT
30. GN MFZRC H
31. HNRYHL LND
32. S NSR MSNH NNV LN C
33. SH TSM DTT HT H RFT HWN DNT HWL LW S
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SOLUTIONS
Last week’s jigsaw foxer:
a1. waders (Colonel_K)
a2. wolf whistling (Phlebas)
a3. waist chop (a_monk)
a4. westland westminster (Phlebas)
a5. waugoshance light (Colonel_K)
a6. wikipedia logo (Electric Dragon)
b1. walt whitman (Colonel_K)
b2. wheelchair basketball (a_monk)
b3. whip-ma-whop-ma-gate (Phlebas)
b4. whitstable (ylla)
b5. werner voss (Colonel_K)
b6. westphalian dachsbracke (Zwack23)
c1. wilhelm scream (Phlebas)
c2. war of the breton succession (Colonel_K)
c3. wagner group rebellion (Colonel_K)
c4. widget (Phlebas)
c5. wounded knee massacre (a_monk)
c6. waterloo helmet (Zwack23)
d1. wisconsin (Colonel_K, Electric Dragon)
d2. wunderwaffe (a_monk)
d3. wedgewood portland vase (ylla)
d4. women’s test cricket (a_monk)
d5. witchfinder general (Phlebas)
d6. wax museum (a_monk, Froggster, Colonel_K)
e1. wartburg (marque) (Colonel_K)
e2. worker’s party of korea (Colonel_K)
e3. waterloo & city line (Colonel_K)
e4. woody guthrie (Zwack23)
e5. warsaw metro (Panzerschwein)
e6. wkw wilk (Colonel_K)
f1. worry beads (Colonel_K)
f2. weis wm-21 solyom (Phlebas)
f3. wimbledon championships (Phlebas)
f4. wētā (Colonel_K)
f5. worshipful compnay of vintners (Colonel_K)
f6. wingtip vortices (Phlebas)
19 – CANNABIS FACTORY
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/huge-industrial-cannabis-farm-found-8610244
22 – THE FATHER’S DAY BANK MASSACRE
15 – JOINT ACCOUNT (possibly related to 19)
11 – COMPOUND INTEREST
33 – The last 8 words of 33 are THE AUTHOR OF THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS as Kenneth Grahame worked in a bank before writing it
SHOTS MADE AT?
Instead he was sent to work at the Bank of England in 1879, and rose through the ranks until retiring as its Secretary in 1908 due to ill health, which may have been precipitated by a possibly political shooting incident at the bank in 1903. Grahame was shot at three times, but all the shots missed him.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Grahame
AIMED AT?
Though I’ve no doubt a wily defence lawyer would claim there’s no proof, and that his client always intended to miss.
17 – CHIEF RISK OFFICER
2 – CHINESE WALL
I’d’ve laid money on it starting Chain and being about those little pens.
Is everyone away on holiday at the moment? Gonna stop here and leave enough pickings for latecomers.
I’m just late, and phlebas is about but doesn’t usually get back from lunch until a bit later than this 🙂
12 – TIME LOCK ? or is that one word TIMELOCK..
8 – MORTGAGE ADVISOR
31. HENRY HOLLAND https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Lancelot_Holland
30. GNOME OF ZURICH, oddly singular. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnomes_of_Z%C3%BCrich
23 – GEORGE MAINWARING
26. THE SPREAD EAGLE, original home of Barclays (although isn’t that a thing a bank is found in, rather than the other way round?)
18. SILENT ALARM BUTTON
24 – LAUNDERED MONEY
14 – MaGNeTiC iNK CHaRaCTeR ReCoGNiTioN LiNe
14. MAGNETIC INK CHARACTER RECOGNITION LINE
13. ROBERT LEROY PARKER
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butch_Cassidy
18. SILENT ALARM BUTTON
4. DONALD DEFREEZE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_DeFreeze
10. DYE PACK
29. DEMAND DRAFT (rather than DAMNED DRAFT!)
9. TELLER’S WICKET
3. LESTRANGE VAULT
https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Lestrange_Vault
6. THERMIC LANCE
16. THREE HOLE BALACLAVA
25. THOMAS STERNS ELIOT (another writer who used to work in a bank, and to whom I owe my online name)
7. ORANGE LION – symbol of Dutch bank ING
5. AJAY BANGA – President of the World Bank
Remaining:
1
20, 21
27, 28
32
Re: 28. Ethiopian ? Bearers?
(Bearer bonds. Sort of thing heisted in a Die Hard movie)
Ethiopian Birrs, maybe?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_birr
I checked that against my own list, and thought ‘did someone get 29?’
Yes.
I did.
Well, that number 1 is weird.
I found a possible Haxtun or Hoxton. But both doesn’t seems to match.
am thinking its got symbols missing…. like Hai.extn or something
It’s Hoxton:
https://payday.fandom.com/wiki/Hoxton
20. ATHENA SAVALAS in Hitman 2 (2018). She’s the director of the New York branch of the bank corporation Milton-Fitzpatrick