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. All are welcome to participate.
The honeycomb below is a fancy form of wordsearch in which every cell is used, and words can curl and zigzag but never overlap. Each hive foxer has a theme (some past ones: owls, rugby, Egypt, UFOs…). Identifying the theme is a vital part of the defoxing process.
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SOLUTIONS
Last week’s geofoxer theme: Yorkshire (defoxed by Zwack23)
a. The Brontës (Nutfield)
b. The Humber (Phlebas)
c. Scarborough (Nutfield, Zwack23)
d. York (Zwack23)
e. Stamford Bridge (Nutfield)
f. White rose (Mrs Nutfield)
g. Leeds (Nutfield)
h. Yorkshire pudding (Colonel_K)
i. Halifax (Colonel_K)
j. Marks & Sparks (Nutfield and Mrs Nutfield)
k. Downton Abbey (Nutfield)
l. Whitby (Colonel_K)
M2. Home – – J1. Is – – i1. RESPECT
K8. Diddy
G8 Spirit/spiny
G13 orbit
M2 – HOFMEISTER, which narrows the link down to two and I don’t think it’s lager.
G2. Spectacled
F4. Yogi
G8. Spirit from earlier also qualifies
ETA: I can’t quite make Cocaine, and I’m an E short for Nookie
L8 – WOJTEK
G4 – GOLDILOCKS
H5 – BJARKI, which means Little Bear in Icelandic.
K6. Kodiak ?
ETA: E5. (Timothy) Treadwell – bear enthusiast, it didn’t end happily
F12. Corbinian – 8th century saint; while travelling to Rome a bear killed his mule so he commanded it to carry the burden instead