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 that includes the word ‘christmas’, ‘santa’, or ‘holly’ somewhere* in its text. To fully defox the puzzle, supply Roman with a list of all 25 Wikipedia pages.
* The majority of the pages you’re hunting for don’t include one or more of these words in their title.
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 collage theme: the life and works of Tom Stoppard (defoxed by Colonel_K and Aergistal)
- a. e. housman (Colonel_K)
- arcadia
- broadbent (Zwack23)
- brodie (Nutfield)
- the coast of utopia (Colonel_K)
- darjeeling (Nutfield)
- every good boy deserves favour (Colonel_K)
- felicity kendal (Zwack23)
- hamlet (Phlebas)
- indiana jones and the last crusade (Colonel_K)
- leopoldstadt (AbyssUK, Colonel_K)
- lord malquist and mr moon (Aergistal)
- nettles (Aergistal, Colonel_K)
- razzle (Colonel_K)
- the real inspector hound (Nutfield)
- rene magritte (Aergistal)
- tristan tzara (Colonel_K, Nutfield)
- zlin/bata (Colonel_K)
Merry Christmas and a Prosperous New Year to Roman, Joyce, the ex-Royal Marine who runs the Peen the Weasel stall, Tim, and Defoxers everywhere.
Buon Natale to all!
Happy holidays everyone !
D3. YERBA MATE = Ilex paraguariensis of the HOLLY genus, picture shows a selection of gourds and bombillas
E4. VOYAGES OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS – Santa Maria ran aground on Hispaniola (Haiti) on CHRISTMAS Day 1492
B5. HOTCHKISS BICYCLE RAILROAD – _so_ not a configuration I was expecting: monorail and matching bicycle. Ran between Smithville and Mount HOLLY, New Jersey 1892-7
E1 – OH BROTHER WHERE ART THOU? – Starring HOLLY Hunter
D2 – THE LEGEND OF THE CHRISTMAS SPIDER – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legend_of_the_Christmas_Spider
E3 – THE TEMPTATION OF SAINT ANTHONY – I found this pretty quick, but then had trouble finding a page with one of the three words on it. Ended up with the Kimbell Art Gallery where you pass through Holly Trees :s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimbell_Art_Museum
B3 -KALLIKANTZAROS – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kallikantzaros
A3. TORONTO SANTA CLAUS PARADE – the oldest Santa Claus parade in the world. Lego float in 2015
D5. KING CAKE – aka three kings cake or baby cake, served on Epiphany / Twelfth Night after CHRISTMAS
Bakers typically leave the lucky baby figurine outside the cake, leaving the purchaser to hide it themselves. This is usually to avoid liability for any choking hazard.
“The New Orleans Baby Cakes (formerly the Zephyrs) were a AAA baseball team that played their final three seasons (2017–2019) with that name before relocating and becoming the Wichita Wind Surge” – three awful names in a row
C4. HORNBY RAILWAYS – (type 40 clockwork model, O gauge tinplate); only mention of CHRISTMAS is that 2009 saw the launch of the new Hornby Shop at Margate in Kent
C1. SANTA FE 3415 – Pacific-type steam loco. Picture taken in Abilene, Kansas, on the Abilene and Smoky Valley Railroad.
D1. CHRISTMAS lights in Medellín (Colombia)
C5. SANTA Muerte – folk saint in Mexico
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggnog_riot
Not an answer – I’m just sayin’.
Chin chin.
E2 – Delta IV Heavy launch at Vandenberg Space Force Base in SANTA Barbara County, California
E5 – Bartolomeo Pinelli’s “La Befana” or CHRISTMAS in Italy
D4 – Battle of the SANTA Cruz Islands
C3 – Viggo Johansen, CHRISTMAS Story or Merry CHRISTMAS
C2. German bombing of Britain, 1914–1918 – picture is “Ordnance Survey map of Airship raid 31 March/1 April 1916 on England”
On 24 December 1914 Tommy Terson of Dover was bombed while picking Brussels sprouts for his CHRISTMAS dinner. His neighbour, James Banks, was knocked off his ladder while collecting HOLLY.