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.
Roman, THC’s Chief Foxer Setter, is old enough to remember the days when there were Cheryls and Paulas in most classrooms, and highwaymen still plied their trade along the A3. He also recalls the time when all Friday Foxers were collage foxers.
(To complete the defox, identify the hidden theme and explain how each component relates to it)
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SOLUTIONS
Last week’s hivefoxer theme: the international space station (defoxed by copperbottom)
apogee of fear (a_monk)
ared (a_monk)
cimon (a_monk)
crew dragon (Colonel_K, a_monk, copperbottom)
cygnus (Colonel_K)
dextre (a_monk)
irosa (Colonel_K)
orbital (a_monk)
pirs (a_monk)
pizza (Nutfield)
poisk (Colonel_K)
prichal (a_monk)
quest (copperbottom)
robonaut (copperbottom)
rubio (a_monk)
tranquility (Colonel_K)
tremor (Colonel_K)
unity (Colonel_K)
zarya (copperbottom)
zvezda (Colonel_K)
The performer’s legs are those Raquel Welch at a USO show in Vietnam, 1967
https://www.reddit.com/r/OldSchoolCool/comments/p1388o/raquel_welch_in_vietnam_1967_uso_tour/
Oh. Those legs.
The larger pair belong to Gary Cooper in High Noon (playing Marshal Will Kane)
Postcard top right looks to be from Skegness, unless it’s from Lincolnshire more generally.
Top left. Action figure of Maria from Metropolis, 1927?
The stamp is a French commemorative stamp of Sarah Bernhardt from 1945.
https://www.avionstamps.com/shop/products/all/150892/france-1945-birth-centenary-of-sarah-bernhardt-%28actress%29-4f+1f-purple-brown-unmounted-mint-sg-950/
Death’s Head Hawk Moth (Mrs Nutfield)
The toy is a Rosie the Riveter action figure
Oval coin/medal thing: KITCHENERS TRAUM (Kitchener’s Dream) by Hans Lindl
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/16768
Kitchener and Bernhardt were both involved in the Ambulances in the Franco Prussian war.
Gary Cooper (A Farewell to Arms) and Raquel Welch (Mother, Jugs and Speed) were both in ambulance themed movies. I’ve got nothing for a death’s head moth, though.
The death’s head hawk moth and Raquel welch have both been painted by Salvador Dali.