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 you might find in Wales’ (‘things’ is used in its broadest possible sense). Entries have been stripped of vowels and numbers and have had any inter-word spaces repositioned*. For example, if ‘bilingual road sign’ was present it might appear as BL NGLR DSGN. Daffodil would be DFFDL.
*Hyphens are treated as spaces. Apostrophes are ignored.
1. CRGWYL LT
2. BRBR TH
3. VC TDRT
4. SND RSLWS
5. PBGRN
6. BR DLNDS PDR CR DCR
7. SC LPNSNK
8. CNTRF
9. MRN THNDL LNTSL LYRLTR CTNCM PNYLM TD
10. TPPTWR LDCHMPN SHP
11. LLG NN R
12. MDDMD DFFYNCY MR
13. FNC
14. BM RSPR
15. THWR LDSM STCP PDRG BYN NP LYR
16. CRPSCN DL
17. PRD DN
18. M LVCC HR
19. BL HSPCK LDFCS HP
20. NSSJNK NS
21. THM JRT YFT HD VST DM
22. KL SRG
23. THSN DD
24. BLGNPR MND
25. LVSPN
26. LLRGGB
27. MCB RLGHTHSNC DNT
28. NR NBVN
29. THB BCSL NGSTRN NNGT LV SNS PPR
30. RDN DNTST MLCS
31. STDDFD
32. THNT DKN GDMSDD LSTMN NGC CDNT
33. VCLSSLVL RLT RLFR CTV
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SOLUTIONS
Last week’s cluster foxer:
Assassination attempts on Mussolini (defoxed by Viscount)
a1. The Italian Charnel House, Kobarid (Nutfield, ylla)
a2. Gibson (gusdownnup)
a3. Porta Pia, Rome (Viscount)
b3. Zamboni (AbyssUK)
a4. Capello (Zwack23)
Atlases (defoxed by Nutfield)
b1. Earth Platinum (ylla)
c1. Atlas Shrugged (Viscount)
d1. Atlas Mountains (AbyssUK)
e1. Atlas moth (Nutfield)
b2. Airbus A400M Atlas (AbyssUK)
Upside-down things (defoxed by ylla, Nutfield)
c2.Tabula Rogeriana (ylla, Nutfield)
d2. Belgian Dendermonde stamp (gusdownnup)
e2. Clyde ‘Upside-Down’ Pangborn (Colonel_K)
c3. New York City I (Nutfield)
e3. The Poseidon Adventure (Nutfield)
Words beginning ‘mon’ (defoxed by Nutfield)
d3. Montgomery (Colonel_K, AbyssUK)
b4. Montag (Viscount, Nutfield)
c4. MONIAC (Viscount, ylla)
d4. Monstera Delicosa (Nutfield)
e4. Monaco (AbyssUK, Viscount)
The death of Chris McCandless (Nutfield, Viscount)
a5. McCandless (Colonel_K)
b5. Bus 142 (a_monk)
c5. Stampede Trail (Nutfield)
d5. Wild potato (Viscount, Nutfield)
e5. Remington Nylon 66 (Nutfield)
Surely we don’t need any vowels today 😀
Just one for the first:
1. CAR GWYLLT
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_gwyllt
I was hoping to find some Thomas Telford, but Pontcysyllte wouldn’t be very disguised 🙂
15 – THE WORLD’S MOST CAPPED RUGBY UNION PLAYER (link to Wikipedia.org)
2. BARA BRITH
8. CANTREF
15. THE WORLD’S MOST CAPPED RUGBY UNION PLAYER
16, CORPSE CANDLE – I didn’t know they were particularly Welsh, but wikipedia says so
21. THE MAJORITY OF THE DEVA STADIUM
21 – THE MAJORITY OF THE DEVA STADIUM
23 – THE SENEDD
16 – Corpse scandal. I believe.
or not…
28 – Aneurin Bevan
31 – EISTEDDFOD
20 – NESSA JENKINS (from Gavin & Stacey)
32. THE UNITED KINGDOM’S DEADLIEST MINING ACCIDENT
10 is clearly something World Championship but I can’t make anything out of TPPT
The only thing I know which has its world championship in Wales is bog snorkelling!
TIPPIT
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tippit
There, now you know two.
Thank you 🙂
29. THE BBC’S LONGEST RUNNING TELEVISION SOAP OPERA
I think 12 might end ‘Cymru’, but does that mean it’s all in Welsh?
19. BEULAH SPECKLED FACE SHEEP
14. BEAUMARIS PIER
26. LLAREGGUB (the setting for Under Milk Wood)
30. REDUNDANT STEAM LOCOS
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/locomotives-graveyard-hundreds-old-trains-14908147
27. MACABRE LIGHTHOUSE INCIDENT
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smalls_Lighthouse
9. MERIONETH AND LLANTISILLY RAIL TRACTION COMPANY LIMITED
There had to be an Ivor reference in there somewhere!
13. AFANC – Welsh water cryptid
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afanc
ETA: adding a reply to the first comment
33. VOICELESS ALVEOLAR LATERAL FRICATIVE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_dental_and_alveolar_lateral_fricatives
24. BELGIAN PROMENADE
https://historypoints.org/index.php?page=belgian-promenade-menai-bridge
18. MALE VOICE CHOIR
Not a mole vice chair. Although what do I know about mole politics…
4. SAUNDERS LEWIS
7. AESCULAPIAN SNAKE
– oldest escaped population of said animal in Great Britain is near the Welsh Mountain Zoo, Conwy.
25. LOVESPOON
Remaining (errors & omissions excepted):
3. VC TDRT
5. PBGRN
6. BR DLNDS PDR CR DCR
11. LLGNNR
12. MDDMD DFFYNCY MR
17. PRD DN
22. KL SRG
re: 6. BR D land speed record car(?)
BURIED LAND SPEED RECORD CAR
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babs_(land_speed_record_car)
“Babs’s seats were slashed, the glass in the dials smashed, and the car was buried in the sand dunes at Pendine [Sands, Wales]”
Plenty of speed records at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendine_Sands, but I’m no further forward on the start!
ETA: Oh, BURIED! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babs_(land_speed_record_car)
11 has had two spaces added. Dozy Roman left them out.
Going strangely soft on him. Normally such mistakes would have him eating nothing but laverbread.
Maybe that’s what brought on this quiz in the first place.
12. MUDIAD AMDDIFFYN CYMRU
– ‘Movement for the Defence of Wales’ was a paramilitary Welsh nationalist organisation, which was responsible for a number of bombing incidents between 1963 and 1969.
Remaining (errors & omissions excepted):
3. VC TDRT
5. PBGRN
11. LLG NN R
17. PRD DN
22. KL SRG
3. EVACUATED ART ?
August 1941 – Evacuated paintings from the National Gallery in London are moved to underground storage at a slate quarry beneath Manod Mawr in North Wales.
Alternatively, Evicted Rat, but no idea to what or whom that might refer.
5. PIBGORN, an instrument
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pibgorn_(instrument)