Friday Foxer #255

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: guitars, lions, New Guinea, ghosts…). Identifying the theme is a vital part of the defoxing process.

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SOLUTIONS

last week’s ‘33 Things, Words, or Phrases Wot You Might Find In Twelve-Year-Old Tim’s Lavishly Illustrated Humanities Exercise Book’ missing vowels foxer:

1. NTCL – anticline
2. SL RSTLL – solar still (Nutfield)
3. MRH K – maori haka
4. FRC TNTNGTWR – fractionating tower (Nutfield)
5. DR WN GFTHM SSLN GB RG – drawing of a thames sailing barge (Colonel_K)
6. RSHHS HNH – rosh hashanah (Nutfield)
7. TT TDCNT RLRC KTMTRS – attitude control rocket motors (Colonel_K)
8. MS SVCRLTC RP – massive coral outcrop (AbyssUK)
9. SPLLN GMSTKS – spelling mistakes (captaincabinets)
10. RV WFT HF RTHR M – review of the fourth arm
11. XPL RN GTS P RDRL GNWSCM MNP LCNT HVCT RNR – exploring to spread religion was commonplace in the victorian era (AbyssUK, Nutfield)

12. TNCHTTLN – tenochtitlan (Zwack23)
13. GRN NK – guru nanak (Colonel_K)
14. BRDMRG LCR – beardmore glacier (Zwack23)
15. KSM BPWRSC HM – akosombo power scheme
16. DRW NGFB TH NGMC HN – drawing of a bathing machine (captaincabinets)
17. LK GNT HF RWR DHLD – leakage in the forward hold (Nutfield, Colonel_K)
18. F VPL LRSFB LF – five pillars of belief (Nutfield)
19. R NRC LNDLM ST N – iron ore coal and limestone
20. NT R LG SSS FRTH NT WNGS – natural gas is safer than town gas (Colonel_K)
21. BR M NGH MST HD DNT – birmingham is the odd one out (Nutfield)
22. MHM MDB C MSDR V RNC MLT RN – muhammad becomes a driver in a camel train (Nutfield)

23. KNGH – kangha
24. YMKP PR – yom kippur (Zwack23)
25. SSMCSR VY – seismic survey (Zwack23)
26. RDT NLK – radiation leak (Nutfield)
27. THFM SDC KTR PN – the famous dick turpin (captaincabinets)
28. D RW NGFP NGN – drawing of a penguin (Zwack23)
29. GR GHRBR TLGHML LRY – george herbert leigh-mallory (captaincabinets)
30. MNSTH RSTF RKNWL DG – man’s thirst for knowledge (captaincabinets)
31. NS T RYST HM T HFR V R – an estuary is the mouth of a river (Colonel_K)
32. VR YST PM DMW NCW THP N – every step made me wince with pain (Colonel_K)
33. THSL VSW RK PTWR K NGBYG RDW HWHP PDTH MW HNTH YSL CKN D – the slaves were kept working by a guard who whipped them when they slackened (captaincabinets)