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 A303. He also recalls the time when all Friday Foxers were collage foxers.
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SOLUTIONS
a1. huntaway (Froggster)
a2. hew locke (Nutfield, Viscount)
a3. hercules beetle
a4. holdfast
a5. honey trapping (Colonel_K)
b1. hurling (copperbottom)
b2. hegra (copperbottom)
b3. hook-a-duck (copperbottom)
b4. hoffman’s two-toed sloth(copperbottom)
b5. handala (copperbottom)
c1. helicidae (Froggster)
c2. hang fire (Colonel_K)
c3. haifa (copperbottom)
c4. helmand province campaign (Colonel_K)
c5. harlem renaissance
d1. hit lady
d2. hackney carriage (Nutfield, Viscount)
d3. heart of palm
d4. hibakusha (Nutfield)
d5. hong kong disneyland (Nutfield, Viscount)
e1. hartlepool (Colonel_K)
e2. hanford site
e3. hill figure (Colonel_K)
e4. hnlms hydra
e5. hindu kush (Colonel_K)
I’m glad to be able to get one:
Sub’s conning tower, lower left = INS Dakar (formerly HMS Totem)
I think the link is rallys – the bottom left is the insignia for the Budapest-Bamako rally ( https://www.budapestbamako.org/ ), and Dakar (formerly Paris-Dakar) is another one.
Top middle is Khartoum war game:
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/286135/khartoum-sudan-1883-to-1885
So African capitals rather than rallys then?
Yep, the film poster is Algiers.
Top Left is USS Tripoli
Top right could be the wreck of the SS City of Cairo… (Can’t find that pic)
Then the letters rearrange to: Antananarivo (Madagascar)
The black and white logo/patch on the left side ist for the MOGADISHU Mile commemorative event.
The comic panel is from a comic by Antonia Vassalo about Operation Green Sea – a Portuguese attack on Conakry, the capital of Guinea.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Green_Sea
The race track is Autódromo Internacional de Luanda, in Luanda, Angola