MEOW # 14: Josh What the Doctor Ordered

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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#21

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Cat out, and on duty. Who needs mewdicine?
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The other Wendy. :roll:
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HeadinHome wrote: Wed Mar 03, 2021 10:24 pm Cat out, and on duty. Who needs mewdicine?

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Oh look! An Inpurrn!
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#23

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Litter take your tempurrrture.
The other Wendy. :roll:
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#24

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HeadinHome wrote: Wed Mar 03, 2021 11:15 pm Litter take your tempurrrture.
Tempurrture nothing, she wants a cat scan, I hope the bill isn't too high I hate getting fleased.

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#25

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I took another look and the cat is no longer in the bag.
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FrankH wrote: Fri Mar 05, 2021 2:22 am I took another look and the cat is no longer in the bag.
I think I see her lurkin behind the urchin?

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#27

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Solved, thanks to a nudge from DrTom. Thanks for the help and the free puzzle!
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#28

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Off the couch and confirmed. A marvelous puzzle with fun clues. Must be challenging to come up with so many long words that work in parallel! Thanks!
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#29

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eagle1279 wrote: Fri Mar 05, 2021 9:43 am Off the couch and confirmed. A marvelous puzzle with fun clues. Must be challenging to come up with so many long words that work in parallel! Thanks!
You can thank the brilliant Josh for the grid. If you have seen any of his creations you know he is the Zen master of difficult construction.
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#30

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As much as I want people to admire my construction genius, truth is I just have good software and click a few buttons :)
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#31

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Nudge Saturday!

There are five symmetrically placed entries that have something in common. These are what you need to pay attention to.

Consider the number of words in the five aforementioned entries.

You need to extract two letters from each theme entry.
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#32

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🐱 💼 after the nudges.
Got a good laugh out of this
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madhatter5 wrote: Fri Mar 05, 2021 10:34 am As much as I want people to admire my construction genius, truth is I just have good software and click a few buttons :)
Pff!
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#34

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OK, as far as I can tell from folks who have either posted or PMed there are at the very least 17 cats running around out there. They will no doubt end up on or off the couch, doing something undesirable in the sand or stepping into the transporter beam....

1 ChrisKochmanski----------10:06 AM----- 3-Mar
2 ky-mike---------------------10:56 AM
3 Hector----------------------11:22 AM
4 Bird Lives-------------------11:25 AM
5 boharr-----------------------11:59 AM
6 Meg--------------------------12:45 PM
7 Joe Ross----------------------2:14 PM
8 Cindy-------------------------2:26 PM
9 KayW--------------------------5:57 PM
10 Bob Cruise--------------------8:52 PM
11 Headinhome-----------------10:24 PM
12 Dplass--------------------------6:48 PM---- 4-Mar
13 eagle1279---------------------8:42 PM
14 BrennerTJ---------------------9:35 AM---- 6-Mar
15 Al Sisti-------------------------9:45 AM
16 Dannyvee---------------------9:50 AM
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#35

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I needed the nudges, but, solved! I liked it.
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#36

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The cat is out (with some help from the nudges)! Loved it!
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Got it with help. This was brilliant and more so as I review it!
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#38

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In retrospect I shouldn't have needed the nudges -- isn't that always the way? -- but the cat has been freed!
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#39

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So the last of the verified cat nappers....
17 CPJohnson 5:16 PM 6-Mar
18 Ladybird 6:27 PM
19 Snood 7:56 PM
20 lbray53 8:02 PM
21 Laura M 10:08 PM
22 Jaclyn 9:12 AM 7-Mar
23 joequavis 10:21 PM 8-Mar

A total of 23 (at least 23 reported) of you took the time to indulge our silliness. Thank you all for trying the puzzle and I'm sure we will be back again for another duet in the future.
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#40

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Solution:

Five two-word medical puns are placed symmetrically in the grid, the answers to which are:

TAPEWORMS

OXYGENTANK

AUNTYBIOTICS

LEGIONELLA

TASESACHS


Taking the first letters of each theme entry, we get TWO TABLETS, which is the answer.
https://pandorasblocks.org/crosswords-for-cancer
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