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 same letter. To fully defox the puzzle, figure out the letter and supply Roman with a list of all 25 Wikipedia pages.
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 or vertical line before anyone else to win ‘Connect 5’ bragging rights.
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SOLUTIONS
last week’s Wrexham ‘day tripper’ foxer:
1. A fox (found by captaincabinets)
2. A sheep (found by Mrs Nutfield)
3. A goat
4. An electric guitar (found by captaincabinets)
5. An astronaut (found by Froggster)
6. A helicopter (found by Aergistal)
7. A flake (found by Nutfield)
8. A poppy (found by Froggster)
9. A revolving door
10. A Portuguese explorer (found by captaincabinets)
11. A hearse (found by Froggster)
12. Strontium Dog (found by Aergistal)
13. The TripAdvisor logo (found by captaincabinets)
14. A Wrexham AFC shirt (found by Nutfield)
15. The word ‘Valentines’
16. The words ‘LON BYSIAU’ (found by Nutfield)
17. The words ‘I shall not want’
A2. ‘Constantine the African’
or ‘Uroscopy’ / ‘Urination’
or ‘History of medical diagnosis’
or Watch out for Roman going evil again and it’s a number at the start:
’11th century’
C4 is on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uilleann_pipes so that’s another piece of evidence for ‘U’.
B4’s David Mitchell is also on ‘Upstart Crow’.
A4 is on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underwater_habitat
B5. Uffizi (probably, then)
Friend of the Foxer Artemisia Gentileschi’s Judith Beheading (frequent victim of the Foxer) Holofernes.
D5. Underwriter’s knot – for strain relief in electrical wiring
E5. Uckers – less-common six-sided Uckers board
Players have their name inscribed on the back if they receive an eight-piece dicking; typical, for the Navy.