MEOW #40: Scaredy-Cat

A weekly meta crossword on the forum started by member Josh (aka madhatter5). These puzzles are often very creative with solving mechanisms out of the norm and skewing towards the more challenging. Puzzles are posted every Wednesday, and the solution appears the following Tuesday.
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MEOW #40: Scaredy-Cat

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Hi all and welcome to the fortieth installment of the MEOW!

The answer to this meta is a paralyzing condition.


I will be incommunicado most if not all of today (first day of work :shock: ) but good news is if you have the answer, you really won't need any verification.


http://crossword.info/madhatter5/ScaredyCat

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... sp=sharing

PDF LINK - 1 page

EXCEL LINK



Kitten

Calico

Persian

Puma

Lion


Good luck!


P.S. Try storming the castle at @benchen71 's new MOAT series: viewtopic.php?f=14&p=66182#p66182
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#2

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madhatter5 wrote: Wed Sep 01, 2021 12:55 am Hi all and welcome to the fortieth installment of the MEOW!

The answer to this meta is a paralyzing condition.


Ooh, I know:

11:20 ON SUNDAY NIGHT AND YOU HAVE NOTHING AND THERE ARE 13 PAGES OF "I'M ASHORE; IT SURE WAS A FUN ONE"

Right?
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#3

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This mean lagomorph's got the feline cowering!
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#4

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Solved and submitted.
Edit: Confirmed
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#5

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As @RPardoe pointed out I actually misspelled the answer!

It won't affect the solve, trust me, but still. That's embarrassing.
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Ohhh, I ain't skeered! Got it.

The feline is incontestably emancipated from the portmanteau!
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#7

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The cat has rolled out of the sack. On the plus side, I got it without nudges. On the other side, it really was dumb luck. But hey! A cat is a cat!
Confirmed.
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madhatter5 wrote: Wed Sep 01, 2021 10:44 am As @RPardoe pointed out I actually misspelled the answer!

It won't affect the solve, trust me, but still. That's embarrassing.
OMG!! I can't believe I missed that! :o
(Tongue-in-cheek)
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#9

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Answer submitted.
EDIT: Confirmed. Fun one. Cat is running around grinning.
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#10

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My cat is definitely out of the bag! Great puzzle :-)
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#11

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Cat seems to be out the bag. Awaiting confirmation.

Confirmed and very afraid.
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#12

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I’m afraid the cat is out of the bag.
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#13

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Out of the bag! Fun and not scary at all.
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I'm afraid I have sideraphobia :star2: :star: :star2: :star: :star2: :star: :star2: :star: :star2: :star: :o
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(this week's puzzle, that is...)

And since the cat is still stuck way at the bottom of the bag if that's at all a spoiler it's completely inadvertent.
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To borrow a poker term, I missed the tell and needed a nudge to find it. IMPRESSIVE grid to set up the meta.

The cat is out of the bag but MEOW still scares me a little.
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Au revoir, chat!

I needed a slight nudge, then saw what I needed to almost immediately. Very cool!
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#17

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Whew. Took me a day or so, but the cat is out of the bag.
No nudge required this time. Pretty amazing puzzle.
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#18

Post by madhatter5 »

Nudge Saturday!

There are two entries in the grid (unstarred) that form a big hint

All starred entries "interact" with one another in a certain way

The answer contains many letters, which is why I missed that I had spelled it wrong
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#19

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Post-nudge solved.
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The cat has escaped. Solved without peeking at the spoilers. Just had a late start getting to this puzzle.
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