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
G5 ‘corax’ – Greek for crow/raven
Random 5+ letters:
E2 – QUEER
B2 – THOUGHTS
F11 – WHALE
M4 – STRAW
A7 – SHRED
E4 – HERON
J1 – CUBAN
Difficult letters?
L8 – H?
E2 – Q (QUEER, SQUAB (Also a type of bird))
We’ve got some ‘fascists’ at C4
Had me thinking it was some slang or acronym I don’t understand. You mean K4.?
I certainly did. Curly vs kicking – I haven’t made that mistake in a while. Apparently I’m regressing to childhood
Mostly crude ones, but there is BUCKET(S) at H2.
G2 HUMBUCKER
M1 STRATOCASTER
I think we’re looking at electric guitars this week
edit:
D10 THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS – so just guitars in general?
E11 ‘the law suit’ and/or ‘lodge’? not sure what connection or meaning that would have…
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…
There are two paths to end Fascists, and two places to start STRUM: M4. or J7.
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?
E5 THE FOOL (one of clapton’s guitars)
E4 could just be HERO
F8 FRET
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.
Woody Guthrie’s guitar (of ‘this machine kills fascists’ fame) was acoustic. I think the theme is just guitar in general.
E11. THE LOG – Les Paul’s solid-body electric guitar prototype
i10. DOBRO – manufacturer
L7. WAH PEDAL
A1. -ET as a suffix for guitaret ??