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.
Below is a list of ‘33 Words Or Word Sequences Wot Can Be Found In The October 28th, 1972 Issue Of Look And Learn’. Entries have been stripped of vowels and, where possible, have had any inter-word spaces repositioned*. For example, if ‘viking raiders’ was present it might appear as VKNGRD RS. Khartoum would be KHRTM.
* Apostrophes are ignored and hyphens are treated as spaces
In an attempt to ensure as many people as possible get a chance to participate, Roman requests individual defoxers offer no more than six answers on Day 1. (After 24 hours have elapsed, fill your boots!). If your initial six answers are correct and consecutive, give yourself a pat on the back.
1. HPTRCHY
2. DRDNLLS
3. FRYFRF LY
4. FLT WYHS
5. WL DBSS SSN
6. DSSDSW R
7. TRQCNC LLNGPR PRTS
8. ST DTLRDR WNGSTS
9. MT TNDB LY
10. L RDJHNR XTN
11. THHR RRT HTHN TDHWT HRN
12. RHNLND
13. CMC LBDGS
14. RGN TNNBY
15. LVNGQRT RS
16. SFM RM R
17. PRHNSL
18. HG HPTCL LRY
19. SHRTLG GDNG HTPRW LR
20. HLSL SS
21. DC TRDLTTL
22. HLFT RKS HBL LTS
23. SLVTR D
24. MRC RNYR
25. DD SBB
26. NDRCRRG
27. KLLT HHGN TS
28. TR RNTDCK
29. CLDR NFSTPF YN GHT
30. MR TRNDP STL
31. F MSDV YLMP
32. THC KDVNSHRC RM
33. GR NSHS PYL QDCL L DCHYM
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SOLUTIONS
Last week’s hive foxer theme: The River Thames (defoxed by Nutfield)
battersea shield (Nutfield, copperbottom)
dangleway (Nutfield)
dead man’s hole (copperbottom)
hurley burly (Nutfield, Mrs Nutfield)
father (Nutfield)
frost fair (Nutfield)
gallions reach (Nutfield)
lighter (Nutfield)
mudlark (Nutfield)
red sands (Nutfield)
stackie (copperbottom)
swan upper (Nutfield, Colonel_K)
waterloo helmet (Nutfield, copperbottom)
Well I know next to nothing about the mag, so consider all of these to be wild guesses:
3. Fairey Firefly
4. Fleetway House
I also don’t know the mag so these are a bit guessy…
30 – MORTAR AND PISTOL
31 – FAMOUS DAVY LAMP
32 – THICK DEVONSHIRE CREAM
12 – RHINELAND (Mrs Nutfield)
15 – LIVING QUARTERS (With Mrs Nutfield)
23 – SLAVE TRADE (Mrs Nutfield)
Re: 30.
I’d favour Mortar and PESTLE
We have answers for 19 & 33 but without context I have no idea if they would be right!
11. The Horror that Haunted Hawthorne (Hotel) ??
20. Haile Selassie
ETA: 1. HEPTARCHY – the seven kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England
7. Torque-cancelling properties
13. Comical Bodegas ?? (somewhat unlikely)
Maybe badges?
Most likely, though Bodges and Budgies both also fit.
2 – DARDANELLES
You’d think that 19 would be SHORT LEGGED NIGHT PROWLER but I can’t find any hits online.
10 – Lord John Roxton
https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/The_Lost_World_(comics_1972-1973)
21 – Doctor Dolittle ?
5 – WILD BASS SEASON?
17 – PREHENSILE
18. HIGH PIT COLLIERY?
Quote: “5 – WILD BASS SEASON?”
Depends if Roman’s accidentally forgot to move the space. As it is, it’s more Wild Bus Session
5 – Would-be assassin
https://www.lookandlearn.com/blog/30989/the-massacre-of-huguenots-on-st-bartholomews-day-1572/
22 – Half-Turkish Bullets ? There’s an article about Gallipoli so maybe an allusion to the collided bullets or am I seeing too much?
Ignore the above, I missed a space.
HAUL OF (?) Turkish Bullets – phrasing that might work if it’s an archaeological find; I’d imagine it’d be too adult if it was the subject of a anti-smuggling swoop.
26 – Undercarriage
27 – Kill the Huguenots (before they kill us)
8. STaeDTLeR DRaWiNG SeTS
28. ToRReNT DuCK
Remaining (e&oe):
6. DSSDSW R
9. MT TNDB LY – easy; foundational bit of History from UK secondary schools
14. RGN TNNBY – Argentinian Boy ? – sounds like a racehorse, but no proof
16. SFM RM R
23. SLVTR D
24. MRC RNYR
25. DD SBB
29. CLDR NFSTPF YN GHT – Cauldron Of … but possibly a trick by Roman
33. GR NSHS PYL QDCL L DCHYM – Greenish Spy(?) Liquid called {two words}
Updates:
23. SLAVE TRADE is solved
22. probably HAIL OF TURKISH BULLETS – from the same article as 2. Dardanelles
11. THE HORROR THAT HAUNTED HAWTHORN refers to racedriver Mike Hawthorn who precipitated the 1955 Le Mans crash
33 – greenish soapy liquid called chyme?
29 – cauldron of stupefying heat
https://www.lookandlearn.com/blog/30991/in-1941-haile-selassie-made-ethiopians-magnanimous-in-victory/
25 – Addis-Abeba