MEOW #10: Hail, Caesar!

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 #10: Hail, Caesar!

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Hi all and welcome to the tenth installment of the MEOW! Many of you will be relieved to know this one is only a calico. The answer to this meta is a three-word phrase.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... sp=sharing
http://crossword.info/madhatter5/Hail_Caesar

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#3

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Nice one. Ten already!
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#4

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Solved, got me some calico.
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#5

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Solved finally! Made that way too hard.
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Cat out of the bag.
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I could have sworn I posted. Perhaps it’s in the wrong section. So many metas. Anyway, I clawed my way out, finally. Why did I make it so hard?
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#8

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SUPRA (or more properly) UT SUPRA DICTUM as Caesar might say.
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Finished but am not going to call it a solve. I needed WAY too much help so say that I was able to release the cat!

Interesting and I learned some new things. I had to use Excel to get my brain around it, even with strong support.
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Clever clueing - -took me a solid 1.5 hours to fill, along with some Latin googling (still not sure about 48A .) Now to try to untie the knot in that bag. . . .
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Yes tough grid, and I see the breadcrumbs, but...??

I think I know what the phrase will be — can even justify the first two and last two letters of it easily. But the middle??

Nudge, anyone?
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#12

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boharr wrote: Thu Feb 04, 2021 12:31 pm Cat out of the bag.
And then hopped on my lap to give me the softest of nudges toward something I was already doing, but doing wrong! Got it now.

Fun puzzle! Loved the clues “push-up,” “org. with travel bans,” and the I-give-up on 61A. 😂
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Oops, I thought I had posted here earlier that I had finally solved this one (after much consultation with other Muggles), but now I'm not seeing the post. Yikes, did I inadvertently post a spoiler?? Otherwise, I may have simply neglected to hit submit.

Anyway ... cat out of the bag ... and I feel like a moron for how long it took me to get here.

Good puzzle!
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#14

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I finished the grid fairly quickly (three years of Latin in high school) but am just not getting the meta. I have a few three-word phrases in mind but can't backsolve.
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#15

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Nudge Saturday!

62-D and 71-A are hints.

The mechanism itself is named after Caesar.

Only the theme entries are used to derive the answer.
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#16

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I needed the nudges to keep me on the right path, but the cat is out of the bag!
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Needed the nudges as well, clever approach but not something I saw or even would have. All that said though, in the words of Caesar

A cattus est ex lapides sacculi
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NUDGES!I am always willing to give nudges where needed; metas should be about fun, not frustration. Send me what you have done so far because often you are closer than you think!
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Got it from the first spoiler. 🐈🛍
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We got it, but only after the nudges.
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I got it immediately upon reading the first nudge. 🙄
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