Friday Foxer #143

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 China’ (‘things’ is used in its broadest possible sense). Entries have been stripped of vowels and numbers and have had any inter-word spaces repositioned*. For example, if Terracotta Army was present it might appear as TR RCTTRMY. Tangram would TNGRM.

* Apostrophes are ignored and hyphens are treated as spaces

1. JN
2. TN KMN
3. LBBR D
4. BN QDMFL R
5. SL TPLC
6. CL RLCHN NLT
7. TNHC RM DL
8. MNGMN G
9. HML N
10. TG RLPN GGRG
11. XNPP R

12. MPR SSDWG RCX
13. CH NG DJ
14. RDC TNC MP
15. F VGRTKL NS
16. KYNG
17. W W
18. GR TLPFRW RD
19. RPTNGCRS SBW
20. G NTW LDGSP GD
21. PX
22. LTSS H

23. SRCLTR
24. YNG TZLLGTR
25. FRBD DNCTY
26. RBR TFRTN
27. LT TLR DBK
28. JDB RLS T
29. NNJN GDCD
30. NLC TSFCN FCS
31. WR LDSLR GSTSTNBD DH
32. T HSR CFT HCV DPN D MC
33. SC TYFRG HTSNDH RM NSFS TS

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SOLUTIONS

Last week’s geofoxer theme: molluscs (defoxed by Froggster, Phlebas)

a. Ammonite wall, France (Colonel_K)
b. Slug and Lettuce, Portsmouth (Phlebas)
c. Staircase of the Snail, Venice (ylla)
d. Octopus sculpture, Hastings (Colonel_K)
e. Seaslug, Wickenby (Phlebas)
f. Shell Grotto, Margate (Phlebas)
g. Mickey Mantle Plaza, Oklahoma City (Colonel_K)
h. Squid mural, Collingwood, NZ (ylla)
i. Ōgushi Shell Midden, Japan (Aergistal)
j. Shell Tower, Amsterdam (Viscount, ylla)

29 Comments

  1. 3. LIUBO BOARD – ancient 2-player board game

    Remaining (e&oe):
    4. BN QDMFL R
    6. CL RLCHN NLT
    7. TNHC RM DL
    13. CH NG DJ
    16. KYNG
    20. G NTW LDGSP GD
    21. PX
    29. NNJN GDCD

  2. 13. CHENGDU J-7 – Chinese version of the MiG-21, NATO reporting name: Fishcan

    ETA: 7. TIANHE CORE MODULE – part of Tiangong space station

    Remaining (e&oe):
    16. KYNG

    Re: 16. I can find Okay Airways, who sound perfectly adequate; can’t make it a single word, though

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