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.
A1 – Northern Ireland newly licensed driver R plate from the United Kingdom Driving article.
B4 – David Mitchell in Upstart Crow
E3. Upholder/Victoria-class submarine
Target vessel USNS Concord sunk by HMCS Victoria during RIMPAC naval exercise (as one of the SINKEX missions, presumably) off Kauai, Hawaii, on July 17, 2012
E1. Uganda People’s Defence Force
A Sukhoi Su-30MK2 taxiing
E2. Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus
Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus in Toronto March 2017
E4. Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End
2016 Taipei Game Show: Uncharted 4 was marketed at several gaming events and conventions.
B1. Urbana, Illinois
Tortoise and hare sculpture in front of Urbana Free Library
B3. Umbro
Brazil won its first World Cup in 1958 wearing Umbro kits
A3. Universal Carrier
British troops leap from their Universal Carrier during an exercise.
A5. Uzbekistani sum
500 sum note issued in 1999.
B2. Uzzah
Baroque painting of the death of Uzzah by Giulio Quaglio the Younger in a medallion in Ljubljana Cathedral (1704)
C1. Unreal Tournament
Cliff Bleszinski (pictured) was lead designer and contributed significantly to final game content.
D2. Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Ukiyo-e woodblock triptych “Takiyasha the Witch and the Skeleton Spectre”
Still Missing: 6
C2 – C3 – C5 – D1 – D3 – D4
I’ve got C3. and D1.
Regarding C3., I think the painted birds are Upland geese not, as I had assumed, ptarmigans.
I’ll have to muse a while if I can come up with a Roman-grade hint for D1.
I have all of them but I’ll add only D3 – Untermensch for now. It just felt like propaganda.
C2 – Ugo Cerletti’s electroconvulsive therapy machine
C5 – Utility cover
D3 – Unexploded ordnance
D4 – Untermensch (mislabeled in my previous comment)
Last twos:
C3. Ushuaia
D1. Utrecht tram shooting