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.
The honeycomb below is a fancy form of wordsearch in which every cell is used, and words can curl and zigzag but never overlap. Each hive foxer has a theme (some past ones: owls, rugby, Egypt, UFOs…). Identifying the theme is a vital part of the defoxing process. Today’s puzzle is composed of 13 answers.
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SOLUTIONS
Last week’s geofoxer theme: playwrights (defoxed by Froggster)
a. dario fo (Aergistal, Colonel_K)
b. sophocles (Froggster, Colonel_K)
c. arthur miller (Colonel_K
d. henrik ibsen (Colonel_K)
e. moliere (Aergistal)
f. harold pinter (Froggster)
g. friedrich schiller (Colonel_K)
h. samuel beckett (FunkyFrank, Zwack23)
i. william shakespeare (Aergistal)
j. bertolt brecht (Aergistal)
K3. ALBANY – pub names, or I’m thirsty?
E3. CICERO – Roman orators / WWII spies?
C1 – AVOMETER… Seems like something relatively foxery
D1 – WINCH?
H10 – GEORGE CAYLEY
Aviation with AVOMETER?
M7 – LIFT
D10 WINCH LAUNCH ? (as in, glider launches)
WINCH LAUNCHER is also possible
I4 – AIRSPEED
End up with some strange words at the bottom:
M3 – GIMLI
H9 – RIDGE
:s
Gliders it is then?
D10. GRUNAU BABY
Well, at least that means Gimli is correct :p
J4 – BALLAST
K5 – something WATER? (Unless WATER glider is a thing)
F8 – HORUS
J1 – TORO (Make of toy glider?)
I’m not sure about Gimli, but it should be
H9. RIDGE LIFT as one answer
ETA: I’m now OK with M3. Gimli
– Gimli Glider was an Air Canada jet that ran out of fuel
Yeah, Gimli is a make.
AVOMETER switched to:
C2: VARIOMETER
I reckon it’s L4. AIRSPEED HORSA as one answer.
K5. WATER BALLAST as a single answer, too (carried by competition gliders, jettisoned as needed/adjust centre of mass)
3. M3. GIMLI
4. H9. RIDGE LIFT
5. H10. GEORGE CAYLEY
6. D10. GRUNAU BABY
7. C2: VARIOMETER
8. D10. WINCH LAUNCH (-er)
Ought to be five answers remaining.
D10. is plain Winch Launch,
9. H4. AEROTOW
If anyone needs an Erector, there’s one at E5/F5.
There should be four answers left to find.
E4 – CLOUD?
C9: KLAUS OHLMANN
There’s E7. CONDOR which bisects the remaining letters and feels Foxer-appropriate, but creates more problems than it solves.
The less said about the letters left below it, the better.
Above it, there’s (as Nutfield spotted) E4. CLOUD, D5. STEER and a loose T at F4.
There are numerous airplanes named Cloudster of which one, Ryson ST-100, is a _motorised_ glider and so feels a bit off.
Condor T Cloud sounds too Disney-ish. (If not a fake name for BA from the A Team)
Condor is indeed one of the answers:
https://www.condorsoaring.com/
Cloud is half of another.
C4 CLOUD STREET
J4 BAYNE’S BAT
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baynes_Bat