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The Foxer

Warm-Up Foxer (What am I?)

I'm found in Africa and parts of the Middle East. I'm mentioned in the Bible. There's money in my manure. I'm a sun worshipper and singer. I'm looked up to in Zimbabwe's second city. I'm related to a much larger mammal. My arch-enemy bears the name of a distinguished French ornithologist.

Feature Foxer

Below is a list of ’25 Things That You Might Find in a Library′ (‘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 ‘Philip Larkin’ was present, he might appear as…

PHLPLR KN

Persuasion would be…

PRSSN

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

1. SLNC
2. FNTS TCM RFX
3. RLLNGLD DR
4. BBLPHL
5. LDP P
6. KLLL XC RSS
7. RTSTHNS
8. DTS TMP
9. LNRT WTTY
10. DFCTN
11. RST RCTDSCTN
12. PM LRVS
13. BKSTCK
14. LRBS H
15. CLN LMSTRD
16. STRYTLLR
17. VCRN HN
18. RM TLF RND
19. GT HR SN ND THQ CHFD TH
20. MLVLD WY
21. THG RFFL
22. PL-TTTT*
23. KBD*
24. DMN RGR*
25. RPPY*

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SOLUTIONS

Last Week's Warm-Up Foxer

Answer: Bibendum (defoxed by phlebas)

Last Week's Feature Foxer (Political Places)

a Runnymede (Little_Crow, JB)
b Watergate Office Building (Lazzars)
c Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (AFKAMC)
d Konrad-Adenauer-Haus (unacom)
e Aung San Suu Kyi’s house (Stugle)
f Mussolini’s birthplace, Predappio (phlebas)
g St Johns, Isle of Man (Cian)
h House of the National Assembly of Serbia (Panzerschwein)
i Granita restaurant, Islington (Little_Crow)
j Landtag of Liechtenstein (unacom)
k Musical Fund Hall, Philadephia (UnholyDeath)
l Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Lazzars)
m Rabin monument (AFKAMC)
n Davos Congress Centre (unsolved)
o Plaza de Mayo (Lazzars)

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Tim Stone: A vereran PC games journalist, Tim has been covering simulation, strategy and management games in print and online for over 30 years. At Rock Paper Shotgun, he was the writer of The Flare Path, a weekly column, from 2011 until 2022.
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