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.
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SOLUTIONS
Last week’s geofoxer theme: sand (defoxed by Nutfield and Zwack23)
a. sandy, bedfordshire (Zwack23)
b. marina bay sands, singapore (Nutfield)
c. sanditon filming location, dyrham park (Colonel_K)
d. white sands missile range (Nutfield)
e. dune of pilat (Nutfield)
f. sandettie light ship, dunkirk (Nutfield)
g. pendine sands (Nutfield)
h. bobby sands mural, belfast (Nutfield)
i. sand sculpture, weston-super-mare (copperbottom)
j. sandman’s sandcastle, efteling bosrijk park (Aergistal)
k. sand cats, exmoor zoo (Zwack23)
l. sandpit, la haye sainte (Colonel_K)
Lady with the hat and beer bottle is Regina Spektor, from the cover of her album Soviet Kitsch.
Serge Gainsbourg is between the coin and the gun.
the RCMP uniform is the ‘Red Serge’.
The motorcyclist is Nick Berry as PC Nick Rowan in ‘Heartbeat’.
The character’s departure from the show is that he moves to Canada to join the Mounties.
Do i get a point for saying it’s Queen Elizabeth on the middle right on a horse (probably not).
The Queen is on a horse called Burmese, and is riding with Ronald Reagan. Photo is here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horses_gifted_by_the_RCMP_to_the_monarch_of_Canada#Burmese
There’s a statue of the Queen on Burmese in Regina, Seskatchewan, making a link to Regina Spektor.
The coin is a 1913 Buffalo Nickel.
Regina, Seskatchewan was originally called Wascana (Buffalo Bones).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regina,_Saskatchewan
Badge of the RCMP features a buffalo – presumably the one approved by QE2 on July 4, 1973. “The force subsequently presented the sovereign with a tapestry rendering of the new design.”
The glass construction is the inverted louvre pyramid (pyramide invertida) in the carrousel de louvre shopping mall. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louvre_Inverted_Pyramid
The Musical Ride demonstration unit of the RCMP is called Le Carrousel in French.
I’m calling the theme: Royal Canadian Mounted Police
The gun looks to me like a S&W 5906 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_%26_Wesson_Model_5906#5900_series_manufacturing_history
which matches the service weapon of the RCMP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_police_firearms_in_Canada
S&W 5946 – double-action-only variant of the 5906
https://sopranos.fandom.com/wiki/Smith_And_Wesson_5946
It’s a Smith & Wesson 5946 more precisely. The particular one pictured in the Foxer was used on the set of The Sopranos.
Bit of theme park is Dudley Do Right’s Ripsaw Falls
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Dudley+Do-Right's+Ripsaw+Falls/@28.4695725,-81.4716204,2a,90y,215.4h,96.92t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sOjtz0rfXDDNVDLCOSOUPwA!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D-6.920534516101839%26panoid%3DOjtz0rfXDDNVDLCOSOUPwA%26yaw%3D215.40197667619756!7i13312!8i6656!4m6!3m5!1s0x88e77f1dff95b34b:0x8086cbfe8daf4a46!8m2!3d28.4692022!4d-81.4718164!16s%2Fm%2F0413xkm?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDYxNi4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D
Poster – Canadian Mounties vs Atomic Invaders (Sounds pretty cool)
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/lfoAAOSwnQNhjCCI/s-l400.jpg
Tbh, i thought they were space invaders, i’m a bit disappointed now…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paLGnH_-ZVI
Gothic revival town hall bottom-left is RENFREW -> Renfrew of the Royal Mounted, series of boy’s adventure books and later films.
Vessel top-left is the RCMP schooner St. Roch, now at Vancouver Maritime Museum
https://www.google.com/maps/place/St.+Roch+National+Historic+Site/@49.2775758,-123.1473435,3a,90y,95.86h,105.21t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sCIHM0ogKEICAgICMkLaJvgE!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh3.googleusercontent.com%2Fgpms-cs-s%2FAB8u6HZ4ErORhOU5y_8u9CFL3GoEiEoyvNVoRObFuxGnfh1w7m6D1oxW1n0Mx4RvW1XFShl42T0oRNIDZDBWQbbv4N6bEq-ZYUU5wKMWIYtreU7ryJg87Zq2jdqtmn9MkjLcoeFRZtTOfg%3Dw900-h600-k-no-pi-15.211046557924078-ya358.86013102077334-ro0-fo100!7i8704!8i4352!4m6!3m5!1s0x5486723480549fd5:0xfb849235144ae0d!8m2!3d49.2775334!4d-123.147205!16zL20vMDMxZHNo!5m1!1e1?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDYxNy4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D
Remaining to be identified is the cliff-y place top-right.
Cliff-y place top-right: Castillo BRUNET probably a reference to Gilles Brunet the soviet agent.