The Foxer
Warm-up Foxer (Where am I?)
I'm ten metres from a climbing frame and a sandpit. I can see more than one hundred balconies. The country I'm in is a NATO member and has a bicolour flag. 150 metres away is a sizeable marshalling yard. I'm being watched by a tabby cat and a woman in a high-vis vest. It would take me about minutes to walk to the local football pitch. The nearest capital city is in another country. If you circled the globe at this latitude you'd pass over a body of water mentioned around a dozen times in the book "Above Us the Waves". I'm due north of an island that features in a Hieronymus Bosch painting. Roughly three kilometres SW of here is an impressive Nineteenth Century fortress.
Feature Foxer
Below is a list of 25 Things That You Might Find on a Map or Chart (‘things’ is used here in its broadest possible sense). Entries have been stripped of vowels and had any inter-word spaces repositioned. For example, if ‘contour line’ was present, it might appear as…
CNT RLN
Oslo would be…
SL
1. N NS
2. MN TNRNG
3. TRP CFCN CR
4. PTRPTT GRW
5. WNDR SNTWRK
6. T HDS LT NFSMG
7. TDLDM ND
8. YR H R
9. CM PSSRS
10. TRRNC GNT
11. BTV
12. TMBL
13. NGLRDSTR TN
14. Y RSG LMYPLC
15. BBNDM
16. TRPST RT
17. PRT LNDCR SPLTTR
18. H CSNTL NS
19. TR DRT
20. BK RLLN
21. MXM MLV TNFGR
22. CNSTLLTN
23. SRPNT SHLD
24. HYP SMTRCTNTS
25. PNMC NL
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SOLUTIONS
Last week's warm-up foxer: I was this jigsaw puzzle (defoxed by Gusdownnup)
Last week's feature foxer
Blocks
i) The names Britain gave to US-sourced aircraft and AFVs in WW2
a1. Honey (chuckieegg)
a2. Priest (phlebas)
a3. Martlet
a4. Boston (AbyssUK)
a5. Hadrian (Stugle)
b1. Mohawk (Stugle)
ii) The number 50 (The Bitcher III)
b2. Sandra Bullock in Speed (AFKAMC)
b3. Ulysses S. Grant ($50 bill) (AbyssUK)
b4. Roman numeral L (AbyssUK)
b5. Hawaii, the 50th state (Stugle)
c1. B-50 Superfortress (mrpier)
c2. Class 50 loco (The Bitcher III)
iii) Sportswear/equipment manufacturers (mrpier)
c3. Wilson (Little_Crow)
c4. Reebok (phlebas)
c5. Mitre (Stugle)
c6. Nike (mrpier)
b6 Patrick (Rorschach617)
a6. Puma (mrpier)
iv) Scorsese movies and documentaries (The Bitcher III)
d1. Raging Bull (mrpier)
d2. George Harrison: Living in the Material World (Little_Crow)
e1. The Last Temptation of Christ (mrpier)
e2. The Aviator (phlebas)
e3. No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (Little_Crow)
f1. Cape Fear (Stugle)
v) Nelson
d3. Admiral (Little_Crow)
d4. Battle of Cape St. Vincent (Gothnak)
e4. Lady Hamilton (AbyssUK)
f2. Battle of the Nile (AFKAMC)
f3. Battle of Trafalgar (phlebas)
f4. Victory
vi) English poets (phlebas)
d5. Browning (mrpier)
d6. Milton (The Bitcher III)
e5. Hughes (AFKAMC)
e6. Blake (phlebas)
f5. Hardy (DORKSMAN)
f6. Owen (mrpier)