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.
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.
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SOLUTIONS
Last week’s collage theme: Sur la trace de la chouette d’or (defoxed by Colonel_K and a_monk)
sword in the stone (Colonel_K, a_monk)
wavelength (Colonel_K)
case of the golden idol (Nutfield)
becker (Nutfield)
sentinels (Phlebas)
golfe-juan (Colonel_K, copperbottom)
lingot d’art (a_monk, Colonel_K)
owl (a_monk)
valentin (a_monk)
praeneste fibula (Colonel_K)
bourges (a_monk)
I1 – HOUSTON. Famous Matts?
C9- MORNING, which could be part of something.
M7 – THE ROSTI VAN, which probably isn’t.
There are two ‘VILLE’, perhaps place names at:
M5 & H11
I4 – Some kind of PHOBIA
F6 could be GYROPHOBIA, a fear of raw silver (not kebabs)
or D6 – PYROPHOBIA (Fear of fire)
Or C7 – HYDROPHOBIA (Fear of water)
Sounds like a list of d&d monsters so far… Werewolf, Troll or Vampire?
L1 – BUTTON HOUSE – The setting for the tv series Ghosts? (rather good series too)
Ah ha…
K6 – PHASMOPHOBIA – fear of ghosts!
M7 – TEPHRA.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tephra
K4 – AMITYVILLE
G4 – SPOOK
G10 – CANTERVILLE
C9 – MOANING
(By the way, i can’t see an answer limit any more, am i about to be red-carded?)
MOANING MYRTLE I reckon.
C9 – MOANING, which could be a partial answer.
J10 – (ghost) STORY
C7 – HOPKIRK.
C7. HOPKIRK (deceased)
C7 – HOPKIRK (Randall not available)
lol
F6 – GREY LADY
I4 – PACMAN
A5. CASPER (the friendly)
A5 – CASPER
B1 – EMF METER
E3 – JAMES CLERK (Maxwell’s Demon)
I am left with two groups of rubbish, so something is wrong…
Also, seems to be a floating ‘M’ in F5?
M7 – THE STONE TAPE (Destroying STORY)
Slightly wrong…
M7 – THEORY
J10 – STONE TAPE
Ok, left with tlpyu at the top and a spare m
F5. M. R. JAMES (writer of ghost stories)
Well, that sorts out the M and maxwell was a bit of a long shot :p
D6 – PLUCKLEY (Most haunted town)
Worked better when i actually used the T in MYRTLE.