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.
Each pic in this foxer is taken from a Wikipedia page beginning with the letter REDACTED. To fully defox the puzzle, supply Roman with a list of all 25 Wikipedia pages.
In an attempt to ensure as many people as possible get a chance to participate, Roman requests defoxers solve no more than five discs per person on Day 1. (After 24 hours have elapsed, fill your boots!). Use your ration to complete an entire horizontal, vertical, or diagonal line before anyone else to win ‘Connect 5’ bragging rights.
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SOLUTIONS
Last week’s collage foxer theme: ‘things and people featured on famous posters’ (defoxed by copperbottom)
barack obama (Colonel_K)
death’s-head hawkmoth (Mrs Nutfield)
gary cooper in high noon (Colonel_K, Phlebas)
general kitchener (Phlebas)
bruce the shark from jaws (Colonel_K)
jane avril (copperbottom)
john wilkes booth
maria from metropolis (Colonel_K)
raquel welch (copperbottom)
rosie the riveter (copperbottom)
sarah bernhardt (copperbottom)
skegness (Colonel_K)
‘tennis girl’ fiona walker (Mrs copperbottom)
E5. Who put Bella in the Wych Elm?
Unidentified woman’s corpse found in tree.
Quote: “The remains had, until the late 1960s or early 1970s, been in the Birmingham City Police’s “black museum” at their Tally Ho! training centre.”
(I’m not sure if it’s appeared in a Foxer before, or if it’s part of a THC Cluster Foxer I never finished and submitted to Roman)
D2. Whitesnake
B4. Wagner group
A4. With God, all things are possible
C5. Woodstock – 1969 festival, Joe Cocker performing
C3 Warsaw uprising
C1. Windpump – a Dutch tjasker = a drainage mill connected to an Archimedean screw
D1. Wunder von Lengede (“miracle of Lengede”) – 1963 West German mine rescue
A5 . Witches’ Sabbath
B3. Wendigo – evil spirit of Algonquian folklore; a dressed-up fan
B5. Winchester Repeating Arms Company
D3. Wrocław Dwarfs
E3. Wuthering Heights
A1. Weight pulling
B2. Watchman (law enforcement)
C2. Wedding-cake style
Building is Kotelnicheskaya Embankment Building, typical of the Stalinist architecture.
E2. Whiplash (decorative art)
Entrance of Castel Béranger in Paris by Hector Guimard (1894–1898)
A3. Wings (1927 film)
C4. Worm Drive
D4. Welfreighter
Second World War British midget submarine developed by the Special Operations Executive (SOE) for the purpose of landing and supplying agents behind enemy lines. It only saw action once and was not particularly successful.
B1. Wirephoto – Édouard Belin inventor, in 1907, of a phototelegraphic apparatus called the Bélinographe