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 hivefoxer theme: lies (defoxed by Nutfield, Colonel_K, and Phlebas)
bare-faced (Nutfield)
falsehood (Nutfield)
fib (Nutfield)
mark bellison (Colonel_K)
mendacity (copperbottom)
ministry of truth (Nutfield)
mythomania (Phlebas)
noble (Colonel_K)
pants on fire (Nutfield)
perjury (Phlebas)
pinocchio (Colonel_K)
polygraph (Colonel_K)
porkies (Zwack23)
santon bridge (Colonel_K)
D1. ITHF Table Hockey – European Table Hockey Championship in Eskilstuna, 2018
B3. Ingrid Bergman – in her final film ‘A Woman Called Golda’ (won an Emmy posthumously)
B5. Ishirō Honda – director and co-writer of 1954 Godzilla
B1. Igor Vsevolodovich Girkin – alias Igor Ivanovich Strelkov, instigator of the Donbas War
A5. Ichabod Crane – the fictional one
A4. Ivory-billed Woodpecker (extinct)
(I was hoping it would be a crane)
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ivory-billed-woodpecker-and-22-other-species-declared-extinct-180978785/
C4 – Giant Anteater (at Copenhagen Zoo, just in case that’s relevant)
Insectivore, to fit the ‘I’ theme.
E5 – Ingersoll Radium watch
https://grantpiperwriting.medium.com/the-surprising-and-alarming-history-of-radium-watches-63b6dfc19fcb
I separately found this on:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingersoll_Watch_Company
B4 – spiral construction of an IGLOO
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igloo
B2 – Monochrome TV test card – RCA Indian Head variety
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian-head_test_pattern
C2 – Ivor the Engine
D5 – The Lagavulin distillery on ISLAY.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islay
C5 – Iceboat
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceboat
D2 – Irish Travellers – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Travellers
E2 is from the Invictus Games, but doesn’t seem to be from the Invictus Games wiki page
Found him:
Israel Del Toro: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Del_Toro
C1 – Immersion Suit – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immersion_suit (Mrs Nutfield)
E1. Italianate Architecture – glad to see I recognised Cliveden even though I couldn’t remember the name
A2. Intrepid (balloon) – picture taken more than 50 years earlier than I anticipated; Thaddeus Lowe ascending to observe the Civil War Battle of Fair Oaks
D4. Improvised firearm – a Chechen fighter and his homemade Borz SMG (Chechen for “wolf” BTW)
Re: D3.
I think it might be a cake as there’s something inside and it doesn’t have the thickness of metal I’d expect from a bell.
D3 – The bell of HMS Illustrious
I think Roman might have screwed up on this one. I can’t see this photo on the illustrious-class aircraft carrier page.
It’s the previous generation of aircraft carrier, from WW2.
Here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Illustrious_(87)
A1 – Inverted Head 4 Annas
C3 – Imperial Typewriter Company
I believe we’re still missing A3, E3 and E4.
E4 – Infrasound
E3 – Inner German Border
(tripwire-activated anti-personnel mine on the fence)
A3 – Iran Hostage Crisis