This week’s handmade co-op puzzle won’t defox itself. If you’re a dab hand at quizzes, lateral thinking, and search engine sleuthing, why not help out.
Roman is old enough to remember the days when cub scouts in the UK could earn proficiency badges for toffee making, Ludo, and spitting. He also recalls the time when all Friday Foxers were collage foxers.
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SOLUTIONS
a1. germania (Zwack23)
a2. groom of the stool (Froggster)
a3. gaborone (Colonel_K)
a4. grave robbery (Colonel_K)
a5. grain entrapment (Colonel_K)
b1. grantchester knot (AbyssUK)
b2. grunge (AbyssUK)
b3. girl with an oar (Froggster)
b4. geiger counter (Colonel_K)
b5. geocentric model (Phlebas)
c1. gas carrier (AbyssUK)
c2. gävle goat (Panzerschwein)
c3. general dynamics f-111 aardvark (Colonel_K)
c4. giantess (AbyssUK)
c5. grand-place (Zwack23)
d1. geta (Phlebas)
d2. guardium (Colonel_K)
d3. generation z (Phlebas)
d4. gilbert bundy (Phlebas)
d5. greater spot-nosed monkey (Zwack23)
e1. guerilla girls (Colonel_K)
e2. greeble (Colonel_K)
e3. gurps horror (Phlebas)
e4. glinda (AbyssUK)
e5. gauntlet track (Aergistal)
Happy Tim’s Sock Day, everyone!
(I presume that’s why the masthead’s changed)
CICERONE map top edge, left of centre – a fancier one if they’re asking $27.95 for it, eg. the Land’s End – John O’Groats trail.
South West path:
https://www.cicerone.co.uk/walking-the-south-west-coast-path?srsltid=AfmBOorQM6_TVRItfloZgoVCVyQXFWXf3m9Jp240EhJyz0Ed-skQwYwH#image-2
The cartoon raccoon with the staff is Sly Cooper.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sly_Cooper
There’s an Indian 5 rupee stamp of Mahatma Ghandi from 2005.
https://stampsofindia.com/lists/stamps/2005/Gandhi-Reading.jpg
Obviously also a block of instant ramen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramen
In front of Gandhi: South West Coast Path sculpture by Sarah Ward and Owen Cunningham, Found in Minehead.
Could the theme be long walks?
Drawing of a stringed instrument is a Lyre.
I saw that, but couldn’t figure out a particular type.
Chelys, meaning “turtle” or “tortoise”, but how that might link to the theme evades me.
Chemical compound – CBD (Mrs Nutfield) C21, H30, O2
Connection is The Salt Path Novel
CBD – The disease Moth is supposed to have
South West Path – Where they walked.
Cooper – Who they owed money to
Lyre – Liars? :p
Ramen – They eat a lot of instant noodles.
Gandhi stamp is for the Dandi (SALT) March.
Cicerone map is also for the South West Coast Path.
Swallow top left could be from the book cover (pre film tie-in version).
Reckon the truck might be a MAN 630 L2 5-ton, nicknamed “Emma”.
The South West path is 630 miles long.
Mid Left – Antarctic Snow Cruiser (Mrs Nutfield)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctic_Snow_Cruiser
Known as The Penguin. Penguin published The Salt Path.
Top Left – Poet Simon Armitage who people say Moth looked like.
Inspired guess that the motto on the badge upper right might be “Forewarned is Forearmed” leads to the Royal Observer Corps.
Again, how that connects to the theme eludes me.
ETA: Oh. It’s The Observer that publishes it’s doubts about the veracity of the tale.