Every Friday at 1300 hours, 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. Don’t be shy. All are welcome to participate.
Below is a list of ‘33 things wot are or were red’ (‘things’ is used in its broadest possible sense). Entries have been stripped of vowels and have had any inter-word spaces repositioned*. For example, if ‘Massey Ferguson tractor’ was present it might appear as MS SYFRG SNTRCTR. Ruby would be RBY.
*Hyphens are treated as spaces. Apostrophes are ignored. Sometimes repositioning spaces isn’t possible
1. S PRFL WRB LDMN
2. MR GSMPSNSNC KLC
3. MS TFT HST SNT HM R TSS TDM
4. HNTN GPNK
5. RPRMB TN
6. CHR LCRK RSM NCPR
7. THSC NDSR SFST RWR STR DN GCR DS
8. RB TDDSL
9. FRP PLN CSNT HN TDK NGDM
10. MLT
11. THF RS TC RTDT WHN DR DM L SP RHR
12. THWN DML LNT HBL VR DDCL CHY
13. ND NVN
14. T HP PRHL FFT HF L GFN GL
15. THPLR GNMNM YWN DWSL L
16. SCTL NDSSX THN SCWRL DHR TGST
17. T HM J R TYFB L LSNSN KRTB LTT HST R TFF R M
18. SC RLTBS
19. THSKL NCHS KYLN
20. T GRWD SSH R TNT HF N LD YFM JR
21. THK NG RNR YLST RL NRF R CR NDL
22. T HPH LS TRYNT HH SFL RDS
23. SM NWR
24. T HRT TNGST RNT PFT HSP SS KYT WR
25. MS TPCK TSFRD YSL TDCRS PS
26. FFR DSDRSS
27. THRCR FTT HTW NTHN NT NTWN TYS XSC HNDRTRP HY
28. THCN T RFJ M MYDD GR
29. THN M LNBRT NSM STCM MNP BN M
30. NWRTMS TR
31. THSM NT NDNT HT TLFT HN NTNT HT NT NB K
32. VR TLBYGRP HCS
33. THFN DRFGR NLN DSFR STSTT LMNT?
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SOLUTIONS
Last week’s hive-foxer theme: owls (defoxed by ylla)
belaney (captaincabinets)
blodeuwedd (ylla)
bohemian club (Viscount & ylla)
crespina (Viscount)
elf (ylla)
facial disc (captaincabinets)
lakshmi (Colonel_K)
maghreb (captaincabinets)
minerva (Colonel_K, Phlebas)
morepork (Phlebas, ylla)
parliament (Viscount, Phlebas)
pellet (Colonel_K)
powerful (Colonel_K)
rajah scops (Phlebas)
twit-twoo (Colonel_K)
woodsy (ylla)
2. MARGE SIMPSON’S NECKLACE
4) HUNTING PINK
12) THE WINDMILL ON THE BOULEVARD DE CLICHY
4 HUNTING PINK
12. THE WINDMILL ON THE BOULEVARD DE CLICHY
20. TIGER WOODS’ SHIRT ON THE FINAL DAY OF A MAJOR
28. THE CENTRE OF A JAMMY DODGER
26. OFFRED’S DRESS
22. THE UPHOLSTERY IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS
I’m getting lots of half answers!
17. THE MAJORITY OF BALLS ON A SNOOKER TABLE AT THE ?????? ROOM?
AT THE START OF A FRAME
Was never getting there myself. Nice one!
7) THE SECOND … TRADING CARDS?
SERIES OF STAR WARS
1) SUPER FLOWER BLOOD MOON
3) MOST OF THE SEATS IN THE ? STADIUM
ETA – oh, EMIRATES!
9) FIRE APPLIANCES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM
33 THE FOUNDER OF GREENLAND’S FIRST SETTLEMENT?
18 SCARLET IBIS
30 NEW ROUTEMASTER
31. THE SEA MENTIONED IN THE TITLE OF THE NINETEENTH TIN TIN BOOK
32) VIRTUAL BOY GRAPHICS
29) THE ANIMAL IN BRITAIN’S MOST COMMON PUB NAME
I got stuck on ENAMEL instead of ANIMAL :O
I started with enamel, but I was puzzling over the end and it suddenly jumped at me 🙂
25) MOST PACKETS OF READY SALTED CRISPS
24. THE ROTATING STAR ON TOP OF THE SPASSKAYA TOWER
6. CHARLIE CROKER’S MINI COOPER
14) THE UPPER HALF OF THE FLAG OF… ngl
ANGOLA! (lots of red bottom halves…)
ANGOLA
16) SCOTLAND’S SIXTH UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITE
27. THE AIRCRAFT THAT WON THE NINETEEN TWENTY SIX SCHNEIDER TROPHY
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schneider_Trophy#/media/File:Macchi_M.39_MM76_11_(6414061355).jpg
15. THE PELARGONIUM ON MY WINDOWSILL
15. THE PELARGONIUM ON MY WINDOWSILL
21. THE KANGAROO IN ROYAL AUSTRALIAN AIR FORCE ROUNDEL
8. REBATED DIESEL
5. RIPE RAMBUTAN
11) THE FIRST CAR TO DO TWO HUNDRED MILES PER HOUR?
(The beginning and end look right, ‘do’ feels clumsy…)
10. MLT
13. ND NVN
19. THSKL NCHS KYLN
23. SM NWR
23. SAMIAN WARE
19) THE SOKOLNICHESKAYA LINE
10. MALT?
MULETA, maybe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muleta
Nice work.
I’d been moaning earlier that mullets were red but had two Ls, so I was nearly there!
13 could be ANDEAN OVEN, maybe. I mean they did make them out of adobe, which is reddish.
Or Indian, like a tandoor oven, although as far as I can tell they`re not traditionally red. The tandoori chicken that comes out of them is, though!
13 does begin with a vowel but it’s not ‘A’.