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.
Below is a list of ‘33 Things Wot You Might Find On, In, or Touching a Human Face’ (‘things’ is used in its broadest possible sense). Entries have been stripped of vowels and have had any inter-word spaces repositioned*. For example, if beauty spot was present it might appear as BTYSP T. Blindfold would be BLNDFLD.
* Apostrophes are ignored and hyphens are treated as spaces
1. RG
2. WR YSML
3. NBRW
4. LPTR RHNNS
5. BR NDNGRN
6. MLN NZDCLLS
7. MNRPR CNG
8. MDLPLPB RLCM MSR
9. BXNGGL V
10. MNMLNX HYDR
11. LKFS RP RS
12. KPLK PL
13. MBL MNGFLD
14. NSPR STHSS
15. FTLVS NGGG LS
16. BD SFS WT
17. LTHM
18. CLMB NMRCHNGPW DR
19. CR CDLTR
20. GRPFL VRDHB BBB B
21. CS TRDP
22. SG NSFBL LSPL SY
23. BD GRHR
24. GLB LLRLN
25. PR SDLPS
26. JNCH KR
27. KJLPN CL
28. DL LNGSCR
29. LSHG L
30. BRDS ND
31. VSRD
32. NS LBLFLD
33. SLDJ NRB R ZL NKSSC PCL PBTT R
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SOLUTIONS
Last week’s clusters:
words ending in ‘bo’ (defoxed by Nutfield)
a1. rambo (Colonel_K)
b1. colombo (Colonel_K)
c1. garbo (Phlebas)
d1. sambo (Colonel_K)
a2. jumbo (Colonel_K)
the last movie (defoxed by ylla)
e1. stern (Colonel_K)
e2. peru (ylla)
e3. hopper (Phlebas)
e4. cargo cult (capatincabinets)
d4. kansas (ylla)
storozhevoy mutiny (defoxed by Colonel_K)
b2. burevestnik (ylla)
c2. riga (Colonel_K)
d2. aurora (Colonel_K)
b3. the hunt for red october (Phlebas)
d3. mutiny (Nutfield)
essex (defoxed by Colonel_K)
a3. scimitar (Colonel_K)
a4. the essex serpent (Phlebas)
b4. doe (Phlebas)
a5. the detectorists (Colonel_K)
b5. a house for essex (Phlebas)
fifis (defoxed by Phlebas)
c3. mademoiselle fifi (Phlebas)
c4. fifi hooks (Phlebas)
c5. fifi (Colonel_K)
d5. hms fifi (Phlebas)
e5. fifi greywhiskers (Phlebas)
As a quick aside, I used to play Guess Who at lunchtime in my first job with 5 cards at once, and i can still play it without seeing the cards :s…
3. UNIBROW
25. PURSED LIPS
29. LASH GEL?
22. SIGNS OF BELLS PALSY
18. COLOMBIAN MARCHING POWDER
17. LITHIUM?
16. BEADS OF SWEAT
(Had to add beads here as the website told me to slow down…)
23. BADGER HAIR (Shaving brush)
27. KAJAL PENCIL
2. WRY SMILE
9. BOXING GLOVE
10. MANUMALA NOXHYDRIA (Alien Facehugger)
5. BRANDING IRON
21. CUSTARD PIE
1. ROUGE
33. Sol de Janeiro Brazilian Kiss Cupuaçu Lip Butter
11. LOOK OF SURPRISE
7. MONROE PIERCING (I have a Labret myself)
6. MELANINIZED CELLS = freckles
24. GLABBELLAR LINE (Another thing i had no idea of until today)
20. GRAPE FLAVOURED HUBBA BUBBA
30. BEARD SNOOD – for food workers
Website’s back up!
4. LEPTORRHINE NOSE
6. MELANINIZED CELLS
13. EMBALMING FLUID
14. NOSE PROSTHESIS
15. FATAL VISION GOGGLES
And down.. and up again!
28. DUELLING SCAR
32. NASALABIAL FOLD
These are left:
8. MDLPLPB RLCM MSR
12. KPLK PL
19. CR CDLTR
26. JNCH KR
31. VSRD
19. CROCODILE TEAR (Mrs Nutfield)
26. JANE CHOKER?
31. VISARD – black velvet mask worn by 16th century women to protect against the sun while travelling
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visard
Looks horrifying; I’m glad to know some contemporaries felt so too
Official ones remaining:
8. MDLPLPB RLCM MSR
12. KPLK PL
26. JNCH KR – JANE(??) CHOKER? – not really the face
Couple of extra ones for late-comers:
34. MSNJNY
35. SP RTSFST RN
36. G SNF N
8. MEDIAL PALPEBRAL COMMISSURE, also known as canthus? If so, there is a missing S.
Here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canthus
34. MASONJOANY
26. AJNA CHAKRA (otherwise known as the third eye)
35. SPIRITS OF SATURN (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venetian_ceruse)