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: owls, rugby, Egypt, UFOs…). Identifying the theme is a vital part of the defoxing process. Today’s puzzle is composed of 18 answers.
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SOLUTIONS
Last week’s alphabet foxer:
alfred hitchcock (8) (Aergistal)
brasher doubloon (12) (Colonel_K, ylla)
cape coast castle (7) (Viscount)
dante (3) (Electric Dragon)
echidna (16) (Zwack23)
fiat 600 (5) (Aergistal)
gibbet of montfaucon (9) (Aergistal)
hispano-suiza hs.404 (25) (Colonel_K)
iran-iraq war (15) (Aergistal)
jump scare (22) (Viscount, ylla)
korean sate railway (20) (Aergistal)
lodz ghetto (24) (Electric Dragon)
mac the moose (11) (Aergistal)
nemes (23) (Colonel_K, Viscount)
ocelot (19) (Aergistal)
portuguese airforce (4) (Aergistal)
quartets (1) (Aergistal)
real ira (13) (Viscount)
transall c-160 (6) (Aergistal)
unisphere (21) (Electric Dragon)
vergina sun (18) (Zwack23, Electric Dragon)
wigwam (2) (Colonel_K)
xoloitzcuintle (14) (Zwack23)
yellow brick road (10) (Colonel_K)
ziba ganiyeva (17) (Colonel_K)
F2 – SLAVE
K2 – GATWICK
J8 – DREAM(ILY)
H4 – BEING – which you can actually get two different ways
K8 – FAMILY
M3 – COVERDALE
Both bibles?
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Miles-Coverdale
A1 LETTER, or C1 READ LETTER, if we’re in a text adventure.
E2 WOOD or WOODEN
C1 – RED LETTER?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_letter_edition
K4: CODEX
Something to do with words?
Letter, Codex, Cover?
E7 – SPLASH
E1 – Good News
G13- APOCRYPHA. Bibles it is.
H3 – GENEVA
G2 – LENINGRAD CODEX
H4 – BELT
M1 – WICKED
K3 – VULGATE (Mrs Nutfield)
M1 WICKED
K3 VULGATE
K3- VULGATE
Ha! Didn’t even get in second with that.
A7 WIFE BEATER
(which leaves F12 OWL…)
(Another of the errata, apparently – ‘being in subjection unto their owl husbands’
C6 – THUMB
F8 PSALMS?
C6- THUMB?
F8 – PSALM (Mrs Nutfield)
G8 – PERICOPE
B5- TREACLE
Too many consonants up the top.
C2 ACTS would get rid of a few, but I’m not sure if it’s right.
F5 BASHER
I had ACST left but it turns out that I’d used the wrong T on RED LETTER. That was a stupid waste of 5 minutes on my part!