Friday Foxer #137

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)

24 Comments

  1. 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).

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

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