This week’s handmade co-op puzzle won’t defox itself. If you’re a dab hand at quizzes, lateral thinking, and search engine sleuthing, why not help out.
Roman is feeling nostalgic*. ID the collage theme and explain the presence of all thirteen components to complete the defox.
* The very first foxers were collages.
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SOLUTIONS
Last week’s geofoxer theme: Tintin (defoxed by Zwack23)
a. Flight 714 (Nutfield, Phlebas)
b. General Alcazar (Nutfield)
c. The Crab with the Golden Claws (Phlebas)
d. Cuthbert Calculus (ylla, Zwack23)
e. Captain Haddock (Aergistal)
f. Red Rackham’s Treasure (Nutfield)
g. The Blue Lotus (Zwack23)
h. Loch Lomond whisky (Zwack23, Nutfield)
i. Destination Moon/Explorers on the Moon (Electric Dragon, Zwack23)
j. Mil Mi-1 (Nutfield, Phlebas)
k. Snowy (Nutfield, Electric Dragon, Phlebas)
l. The Shooting Star (Aergistal)
Medal = Companion of the Order of St Michael & St George
… as awarded to David Kelly
England’s womens’ footballer number 18 ought to be Chloe Kelly. Scored winning penalty against Nigeria.
Team are the Lionesses.
Also thought that, also can’t find the exact picture but the sleeves are right.
Painting of blindfolded woman with lyre is HOPE by George Frederic Watts, 1886.
… Susan Watts was the science editor of Newsnight that covered the that covered the Iraqi weapons story.
Officer in the top left is Mark Rylance in WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS.
ETA: imdb just gives his role as Magistrate.
Saints preserve my synapses!
The little button with a bearded bloke tailing a guy in dark glasses is from ASHLAND DOSSIER.
(It’s the darn stage of the tutorial that’s designed for you to fail).
The car is a Vector W8.
… David Kelly visited the Vector Biotechnology lab in Russia
The building is the Hutton in the Forest country house.
Thirteen components, huh?
(Vaguely clockwise)
1. (Postcard of warship)
2. WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS / MAGISTRATE / Mark Rylance
3. (Handgrenade with Palestinian and Israeli flgs – you’d have thought it’d be easy)
4. (White oval logo)
5. (Background – something burning/erupting by a sea)
6. LIONESS / CHLOE KELLY / Penalty scorer
7. HOPE / George Frederic Watts
8. HUTTON IN THE FOREST
9. (‘integrity’ in cursive – 80s? or not neon enough?)
10. ASHLAND DOSSIER
11. (Striped character)
12. VECTOR W8
13. CMG Honour (aka Call Me God)
14. (Black and green striped thing)
So, presumably I’ve listed something that’s not a clue; or I’ve listed two things when they’re one.
5 is a guy rowing a boat, looks like the bottom of one of the cover art of ‘The Mercies’ but was as close as i got.
It’s by Stanley Donwood, as featured on Thom Yorke’s album The Eraser.
The album features a song about the death of David Kelly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrowdown_Hill
Tony Blair’s Labour dodginess?
Hutton Inquiry / Dr David Kelly. Dodgy Dossier.
Mark Rylance played Kelly in a film called The Government Inspector
Definitely this. Well done Colonel_K
The striped pixel character is from the Gilligan’s Island computer game
https://cdn.mobygames.com/screenshots/5081524-the-adventures-of-gilligans-island-nes-a-wild-boar-charges-forwa.png
Andrew Gilligan’s Today programme report on the dossier used David Kelly as its anonymous source.
The oval is the Baháʼí ringstone symbol: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bah%C3%A1%CA%BC%C3%AD_symbols#Ringstone_symbol
… David Kelly’s religion was Baha’i
5. Background island on fire is GRUINARD ISLAND burning in March 2022
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gruinard_Island
site of anthrax testing, Dr Kelly assisted in decontaminating
ETA: 12. VECTOR = State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology in Koltsovo
Dr Kelly determined they were working on smallpox and other biological weapons in contravention of agreements
The best ID I can get on that grenade is the M52 P3 Yugoslavian hand grenade: https://www.imfdb.org/wiki/File:M52P3.jpg
1. is a picture of the Japanese warship ‘Inazuma’ (1932)
(It might translate as “japanese destroyer number 6”, though it might also mean ‘lightning’)
Exploded after being torpedoed by USS Bonefish in the Celebes Sea on 14 May 1944 – Dr David Kelly’s date of birth.