MEOW #45: Pardon My French

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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Aha after nudges :)
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Needed most of the nudges….but got there in the end. Fin 🤣
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Got it🤗.
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Solved and submitted, but I needed all the nudges, plus a push from Cinny.
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Cat nudged out. Good one once I got there
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Merci pour les coups. Le chat est sorti du sac !!
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Solution to Pardon MY French

There was somewhat of a flaw in the puzzle that you kindly didn't ding me on, in that the solution nearly could have been reached just by looking at the clues. (But then you would have missed all the fun in the grid!) Elvis helped me perhaps to make it not completely so.

There were six long theme entries hinted at by the clues followed by a set of parentheses.
The numbers in the parentheses did not refer to letter locations within entries, but to the number of letters in a third alternative word for the clue/entry combos, hinted at by the entry at 6D SYNONYM. This resulted in ESS CAR GO SEA VIEW PLAY, which, in turn, hinted at by the meant-to-echo entry at 71D of HOMONYM, translated to ESCARGOT, S'IL VOUS PLAIT.
(Well, I did say Pardon my French!)

Thanks to all for playing!

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Any reason the grid wasn't rotational?
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woozy wrote: Tue Oct 12, 2021 11:18 am Any reason the grid wasn't rotational?
Simply because with my very limited crossword construction knowledge and experience, I couldn't have pulled off the puzzle! :lol:
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