The Foxer

Clearing up the defoxing annexe after last week's birthday celebrations (thanks for playing, everyone!) took the best part of a day. While I dealt with the consequences of using our extensive O gauge model of a WWI trench railway network as a vol-au-vent distribution system, Roman painstakingly removed party popper streamers from the rigging of the 1:35 Preussen replica over the fireplace, and Moira went to work on the red wine stains on our recently reupholstered (sigh) Splittertarn sofas. Uncle George's late arrival meant he was the one who found himself out in the yard winkling dried vomit from Wendy the Weasel's nooks and crannies with a pressure washer and toothbrush.

Answer to the Aug 5 foxer: Lake Superior (defoxed by Stugle and Gothnak)

a. Isle Royale (Zogg)
b. Marquette ore dock (TeeJango, Stugle)
c. Caribou Island (phuzz)
d. Lake Superior agate (unsolved)
e. Anishinaabe textile design (Little_Crow)
f. Superior (Zogg)
g. Lake (Rorschach617, Matchstick)
h. Thunder Bay (Gothnak)
i. Sturgeon (Stugle)
j. Rock of Ages Light (iainl)
k. Madeline Island (Stugle)

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Below is a list of ’25 Things You Might Find In A Kitchen’ (‘Things’ and ‘Might’ are used here in their broadest possible senses). For purposes of obfuscation, the ‘things’ have been stripped of vowels and had spaces repositioned. For example, if ‘rolling pin’ was present, it might appear as…

RLLN GPN

The last five entries in the list – those marked with asterisks – are especially fiendish. Not only are they vowel-less, they have also been anagrammed.

1. DMBWTR
2. PSTMC HN
3. NGR TN
4. ST RNS
5. FRBLN KT
6. TQBLN CH
7. HSL F
8. BRGN
9. BLS MCVNGR
10. VLCRPTR
11. SPTL
12. CHNTRLL
13. GS TSCFFR
14. MC RWVVN
15. CHCLTR
16. FLRD RDGR
17. JLC HLD
18. NN
19. DRSFR DMN
20. TRNS PTDG
21. KW*
22. LLD*
23. NZZLM*
24. CHSSLPBK*
25. NZ J*