Friday Foxer #149

Every Friday, 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 In The Holy Land’ (‘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 Gaza City was present it might appear as GZCT Y. Strife would be STRF.

* Apostrophes are ignored and hyphens are treated as spaces

1. MLK
2. RND M
3. HLPN TDF RG
4. CD FLPM LY RPDF YDD
5. DVD KMRTR
6. THL WSTFR SHWT RL KNR TH
7. BR RLNCDNT
8. WL LDF FHTL
9. HL GKHN
10. SY KSP CTLN
11. NSKH RLVR S

12. NBLS
13. KNSST
14. K RVMG
15. MSKHN
16. PR CTGTT CK
17. TDTZ HT
18. W TCHFN DR
19. Z LGL
20. SMZ N
21. RDW NGT
22. G LFSL DN

23. SMD
24. TG RTFRT
25. VRH MSTRN
26. SDMP PL
27. WMNB LDN GNLTRN TV
28. K NGDVDHT L
29. RLSHR N
30. T HNVN TR SFGS SWH
31. LLG LSTTLMNT
32. CSRMR TM
33. SPRN VSKKTGT HRNG

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SOLUTIONS

Last week’s cluster foxer:

London skyscrapers (defoxed by Colonel_K)
a1. Newfoundland (Zwack23)
b1. 22 Bishopsgate (Nutfield)
c1. Heron Tower (Zwack23)
a2. The Scalpel (Aergistal)
b2. The Shard (AbyssUK)

Fishing boats (defoxed by Colonel_K)
d1. Nobby (Nutfield, ylla)
c2. Zulu (Nutfield)
d2. Nordland (ylla)
b3. Smack (Nutfield)
c3. Dory (Colonel_K)

Disgrace of Gijon (defoxed by Nutfield)
e1. Algeria (Zwack23)
e2. Bob Valentine (Aergistal)
d3. Anschluss (ylla)
e3. Gijon (Nutfield)
d4. Disgrace (Zwack23)

Michael Gambon movies (defoxed by Colonel_K)
a3. The Good Shepherd (Zwack23)
a4. Sleepy Hollow (Colonel_K)
b4. Gosford Park (Colonel_K)
a5. The Viceroy’s House (Nutfield)
b5. Judy (Colonel_K)

Hunky Dory by David Bowie (defoxed by ylla)
c4. Andy Warhol (Aergistal)
c5. Life on Mars (Colonel_K)
d5. Quicksand (Colonel_K)
e4. The Bewlay Brothers (Zwack23)
e5. Eight Line Poem (Nutfield, ylla)

37 Comments

  4. 14. KRAV MAGA – fighting style

    ETA: 26. SODOM APPLE ? – Calotropis procera, aka “Apple of Sodom” and “Dead Sea Apple”

    • 7. BARREL INCIDENT – 1952, involved Israel allegedly smuggling weapons through Jordanian territory, violating the General Armistice Agreement

      ETA: 8. (THE) WALLED-OFF HOTEL – boutique hotel designed by anonymous London-based artist Banksy alongside other creatives. It is located in Bethlehem

      ETFA: 10. SYKES-PICOT LINE

  7. 24. TEGART FORT – a type of militarized police fort constructed throughout Palestine during the British Mandatory period, initiated as a measure against the 1936–1939 Arab Revolt.

  9. 16. PRICE TAG ATTACK – acts of vandalism committed primarily in the occupied West Bank by Israeli Jewish fundamentalist settler youths against Palestinian Arabs, and to a lesser extent, left-wing Israeli Jews, Israeli Arabs, Christians, and Israeli security forces. The youths officially claim that the acts are committed to “exact a price from local Palestinians or from the Israeli security forces for any action taken against their settlement enterprise”.

  11. 3. HULA PAINTED FROG – not quite as playful as it sounds, a species of frog endemic to the Lake Hula marshes in northern Israel; was thought extinct

  13. 4. Cadfael ap Meilyr ap Dafydd (I got Dafydd and threw it away earlier, and then saw Cadfael later and then it all fell together)

  21. Remaining (e&oe):
    1. MLK – Might just be MILK, might be something else. I’ve considered MOLEK, a variant of Moloch; the thing I was reaching for would be MALAKAI as a variant spelling of the name of the Hebrew prophet Malachi – both of which feel not quite right.

    11. NSKH RLVR S
    17. TDTZ HT
    19. Z LGL
    20. SMZ N

    Re: 19.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel-related_animal_conspiracy_theories
    Hezbollah have shot down Israeli spy eagles. Doesn’t fit as the answer here, though.

    • 11. AIN SAKHRI LOVERS – a Natufian sculpture that was found in one of the Ain Sakhri caves near Bethlehem. It is approximately 11,000 years old and thought to be the oldest known representation of two people engaged in hanky-panky

      ETA: 20. SEAM ZONE – a term used to refer to a land area in the Israeli-occupied West Bank located east of the Green Line and west of Israel’s separation barrier

      • I am curious what answer Roman was thinking of.

        1. AMALEK – a nation described in the Hebrew Bible as a staunch enemy of the Israelites.
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalek

        “The name “Amalek” can refer to the nation’s founder, a grandson of Esau; his descendants, the Amalekites; or the territories of Amalek, which they inhabited.
        The Biblical commandments to kill all Amaleks – men, women and children – have been subject to much historical debate among Jewish and Christian scholars. ”

        and
        “As enumerated by Maimonides, the three mitzvot state:
        – 598 Deut. 25:17 – Remember what Amalek did to the Israelites
        – 599 Deut. 25:19 – Wipe out the descendants of Amalek
        – 600 Deut. 25:19 – Not to forget Amalek’s atrocities and ambush on our journey from Egypt in the desert”

        plus
        “Groups identified with Amalek include the Romans, Nazis, Stalinists, ISIS, Palestinians and bellicose Iranian leaders such as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.”

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