Friday Foxer #140

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)

26 Comments

  1. 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

    • 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.

  2. 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)

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