Friday Foxer #246

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 ‘33 Books Wot Are Currently Available In Roman’s Local Telephone Box Book Exchange’ missing vowels foxer:

1. TRR D (tara road) – Nutfield
2. THCH CL TWR (the chocolate war) – Nutfield
3. F TNT HC LDS (feet in the clouds) – Froggster
4. M RDRH SNCLR S (murder has no calories) – Mrs Froggster
5. WLLGR YSNW LLG RYSN (will grayson will grayson) – Froggster
6. MLF NGN DT HBRB RCBL L (amelia fang and the barbaric ball) – Nutfield
7. CN G RTLT NSYH VJSTM TTHC F (congratulations you have just met the icf) – Phlebas
8. T HTRS RYFD GS (the treasury of dogs) – Phlebas
9. SH DWSFPR NC SS (shadows of a princess) – Phlebas
10. H RBSF RHLT HNDBT Y (herbs for health and beauty) – Phlebas
11. XPL RNGNS PLTBRTN (exploring unspoilt britain) – Phlebas

12. NGLBY (engleby) – Phlebas
13. T HPLG (the plague) – Nutfield
14. MDDLMRCH (middlemarch) – Nutfield
15. YRC H M PN (you are a champion) – Colonel_K
16. NG DD D (one good deed) – Colonel_K
17. DL NGW THT HMNPS (dealing with the menopause) – Nutfield
18. THR RBH NDT HSL NC (the roar behind the silence) – Nutfield
19. NT SFRMT HHR DSHL DR (notes from the hard shoulder) – Nutfield
20. W D WF RNY R (a widow for one year) – copperbottom
21. H WTTF R DWR MS (how to eat fried worms) – copperbottom
22. SH LLWT LLTHP RS DNT (shall we tell the president?) – copperbottom

23. CD (cod) or (coda) – copperbottom
24. SM NLSSS KN (someone else’s skin) – copperbottom
25. PT NSCRM (petain’s crime) – Colonel_K
26. NG LSSHS (angela’s ashes) – Nutfield
27. HN NBLRSNG (hannibal rising) – Froggster
28. THGDG RN NYG D (the good granny guide) – Nutfield
29. N TNM YD YS R (not in my day, sir) – Nutfield
30. FF CLFR TNTH WTD RW (official fortnite how to draw) – Nutfield
31. SHR THS TRYFVR YT HNG (a short history of everything) – Nutfield
32. THXF RDDCT NR YFQT TNS (the oxford dictionary of quotations) – Nutfield
33. THL VSN DJR NYSFRV LV N GJNS (the loves and journeys of revolving jones) – Nutfield

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16 Comments

    • Plain LAWSUIT starting at H11. is my guess – an era of electric guitar manufacture beginning in the 1970s when japanese imitations were superior value price-performance-wise.

      Does leave something else at E11. beginning THE L…

    • As a seriously uncool kid, even I have heard of i4. RIFF

      I thought I might be getting somewhere with D8. DEATH, but I don’t see anything beyond that.

      I did come across the phrase “Shred, Chug and Destroy!” and am happy to consider A7. SHRED an answer. The question is: is A2. CHUG separate or part of some face-melting slogan?

  10. Either AXE or AXEMAN at i3.?

    If it was Axeman, and Stratocaster took its final E at C2., then it would leave BRAQUE or BARQUE from F1. or something else entirely. However, I can’t connect those to Electric Guitars as a theme. Georges Braque did paint Man with a Guitar in 1911 but it wouldn’t be electric.

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