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 is old enough to remember the time when Hinchcliffes of Nottingham, Britain’s biggest shuttlecock manufacturer, employed over fifty full-time goose pluckers. 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 hive foxer theme: chocolate (defoxed by Zwack23)
bloom (Nutfield)
bournville (Colonel_K)
brownie (Nutfield)
conche (Zwack23)
death by (Colonel_K, Nutfield)
ek chuah (Nutfield)
enrober (Zwack23)
fountain (Colonel_K)
gala peter (Nutfield)
ivory coast (Colonel_K)
lindt (Zwack23, Nutfield)
milk (Nutfield)
pozol (Nutfield)
soldier (Nutfield)
teapot (Zwack23, Colonel_K, Nutfield)
theobroma cacao (Zwack23)
willy wonka (Nutfield)
Rightmost of the passport photos: Peter O’Toole in Lawrence of Arabia
Second photo is Vernon Baker – formally awarded the Medal of Honor in 1997
Apologies: it’s a publicity still for Lord Jim (an adaptation of the Joseph Conrad novel), not Lawrence.
Top right: the sarcophagus of Seti I, in John Soane’s collection of antiquities.
https://www.euromanticism.org/john-soanes-sarcophagus/
The painting behind the butterfly is Musketeers in the Tavern by Ferdinand Victor Léon Roybet
Or more likely A Game of Piquet by Ernest Meissonier ?
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ernest_Meissonier_-_A_Game_of_Piquet.jpg
Lol, you’re right. My one must be a cheap knock-off, and not for the first time in my life either. “The Bank had its own military guard, known as the Bank Piquet, which provided overnight protection.”
In my defence it’s quite a close copy …
https://www.artnet.com/artists/ferdinand-victor-l%C3%A9on-roybet/musketeers-in-the-tavern-58VCgtYa9E3sTWqL4jnpKg2
No glory for me this week.
The butterfly is a male Gatekeeper:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gatekeeper_(butterfly)
Australian stamp, bottom left, is from the series Bush Ballads
https://australiapostcollectables.com.au/stamp-issues/bush-ballards
70c – Clancy of the Overflow by Andrew Barton “Banjo” Paterson
Thing below the Gatekeeper butterfly is a Needle Threader.
Any opinions on what the “+c” at the bottom right-of-centre refers to?
The seated Musketeer with two hands of cards?
Cathos? Caramis?
I wondered if it related to the repeated shape (a right trapezium) or a constant of integration, but haven’t made sense of either of those ideas.
I haven’t found the answer but the…
Top left locomotive, apart from looking blue, resembles an Irish CIÉ 181 Class built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division (EMD) as the JL18
Close! I believe it’s actually a 141 Class, at Whitehead Railway Museum .
https://www.steamtrainsireland.com/storage/museum/wrm_06.jpg
The overlaid coin is a 1933 penny, which is very rare – there were plenty of pennies already in circulation so new ones that year were only made for special purposes.
https://www.royalmintmuseum.org.uk/collection/coins/1933-penny/
I don’t know if it’s significant that there are twelve of them (a shilling).
The other side is GEORGE V.
The theme is SUFFRAGETTE and/or bombings.
MILK TIN bomb
One suffragette dead after running in front of GEORGE V’s horse at the 1913 Eposm Derby.
Piquet or PICKET.
… or not
Plenty of Foxer-grade material there. And I got to read the sentence:
“30 November 1912: A man is beaten by Emily Davison with a whip at Aberdeen railway station, as she believed the man was politician David Lloyd George in disguise.”
I’m leaning more towards the BANK OF ENGLAND.
The pictured Suffragette bomb was used in an attempted bombing outside the bank on 4 April 1913
Location is Threadneedle Street
A nightly guard (the ‘Bank Picquet’) was provided by soldiers of the Household Brigade (a practice which continued until 1973)
{bit of a reach} £141 billion was the value in April 2016 of the 5,659 tons of gold held
ETA: Since the 18th century the bank’s GATEKEEPERs have worn ‘pinks’ (a livery associated with Sir John Houblon)
Curly lettering on the left is ‘The Old Lady’ – the staff magazine of the BoE
That makes sense, they also have BULLION like the Wild Bunch member.
BARTHOLOMEW Lane
OK. I had assumed the picture portraits would have the same connection (eg. BoE governor), but seemingly not so. Thus far we have:
1. Laura BULLION – confederate of Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
2. Vernon Baker = Herbert Baker ? – architect responsible for 20s-30s rebuild
3. (unidentified)
4. Peter O’Toole as Lord Jim – ??? (connection unknown)
{Separately, regarding the statue of St. Bartholomew in Milan, I was unkindly searching for the ‘skinny / skinniest’ statue when, in fact, he’s had his skin flayed off}
3 – Will SAMPSON as in George Sampson the first architect.
Peter O’Toole starred in The Day They Robbed the Bank of England, the role that got him cast as the lead in Lawrence of Arabia according to https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/oct/30/film.filmnews.
Wasn’t around yesterday, but i identified St Bartholomew immediately as it’s one of my ‘favourite’ statues in the world. I mean it’s bloody nasty, but the skill is amazing.
Upper right
John Soane was another architect and involved in an earlier rebuilding.
Bottom left stamp
Andrew Barton “Banjo” Paterson = William Paterson, instigator and founder
WHITEHEAD – resident ghost
repeated right trapezium – shape of the building