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 hive foxer theme: new guinea (defoxed by Colonel_K and AbyssUK)
air niugini (Colonel_K)
cargo cult (Zwack23)
carstensz pyramid (copperbottom)
garamut (AbyssUK)
kina (AbyssUK)
kokoda trail (AbyssUK)
kumuls (AbyssUK)
lakatoi (AbyssUK)
michael rockefeller (Colonel_K)
mister pip (AbyssUK)
mumu (Zwack23)
sandline affair (AbyssUK)
tree kangaroo (AbyssUK)
D5 – KEN BLOCK (Or Travis Pastrana)
B1 – MOAI, RANU RARAKU or EASTER ISLAND
Also, TUFF.
A5 – JOHN BENBOW (Admiral Benbow Pub)
Letter is B then, dunno what B1 is yet
This is also on TREASURE ISLAND, so the letter could be ‘T’.
C3 – TAMIL EELAM, and many other associated pages such as LIBERATION TIGERS OF TAMIL EELAM and EELAM WAR IV.
E3 is on both TONIC WATER and QUININE.
A2 is a TOROSAURUS.
A3. TRAMPE BICYCLE LIFT – originally installed in 1993 in Tromso, Norway
C2. TOAD IN THE HOLE (GAME)
Re: D1.
Looks to be a Los Angeles Chargers Swarovski Crystal Large Football Helmet – would be $7000 if it was in stock.
D1. THUNDERBOLT
E4. THRUST REVERSAL
Picture shows “Target ‘bucket’ thrust reverser” but it’s subtly different from the one on the “Target-type thrust reversal” page.
E1. TORTILLA FLAT by John Steinbeck
D4. TRUNK-OR-TREATING
Re: C5.
I’ve found olde-timey ads for a similar device calling it Miss Greene’s Hearing Horn.
A1. Tally-Ho
John Charles Maggs – The Mail Coach
B3. Temari
Japanese ball made from embroidery
C5. Tinsmith
Contemporary tinsmith who also serves as a reenactor at Fort Ross State Historic Park, standing with an ear trumpet, a 19th-century hearing aid
D3. Theo van Doesburg
Painting is Card Players
E5. T28 super-heavy tank
Picture shows the double tracks. Only two prototypes were built before the project was terminated.
D2. Tout
A4. THREE-FINGER SALUTE (SERBIAN)
Re: C1.
Inscription is in Italian not Latin for the month of June (Giugno). For some event between the 15th and 18th. Figuring out what ends …odi would be helpful – presumably NOT a cricket one-day international.
B2. TOLEDO, SPAIN – “The manufacture and selling of swords was affected by the decrease in tourism caused by the COVID-19 pandemic”
B4. TIMUR aka Tamerlane – Sultan Bayezid I held captive by Timur, painting by Stanisław Chlebowski
E2. TOILET TRAINING – 6th century AD potty
B5 – Ten-Day War
C1 – Tiepolo conspiracy
C4 – Ten Thousand