Meow #16 World Wide Web

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 #16 World Wide Web

#1

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Don't know the size of the feline but I smacked it into submission.
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The spider has crawled back to its web and the cat, well Catvis has left the building!
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#3

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Where’s the puzzle?
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#4

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Hi all,

Sorry I just got back into the site :) Here are the links:

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

This one is a Persian. The answer to the meta is a species of spider. If people don't have enough time for solving due to the delay we'll just extend the puzzle for a week :)

Good luck!
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#5

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I got it with several large shoves from a friend.
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#6

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Solved but not submitting -received far too much help.
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#8

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Well isn't this just dandy -- first we have to get them out of the bag, and now we have to get them off the couch too!
(Shades of Schmeel's MMM also -- was anyone else confused about what puzzle they were working on? :) )
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#9

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Got the cat untangled from the web I believe - it's now watching the spider with fascination.
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#10

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With help, I lured the cat out.
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#11

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Got it! But with help. So I won't enter. To enhance the winning chances of the deserving.

I'm of two minds with this puzzle. I enjoyed the experience, and I applaud Josh's willingness to stretch the boundaries, with unusual formats, two-letter entries, single-letter stragglers, etc., etc. His best puzzles remind me of the best of PGWCC. (Please return, Peter!) OTOH, I like that other metas (WSJCC, MGWCC, MMMM, most MMMs) stay within the "rules".
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ChrisKochmanski wrote: Fri Mar 19, 2021 9:19 pm Got it! But with help. So I won't enter. To enhance the winning chances of the deserving.

I'm of two minds with this puzzle. I enjoyed the experience, and I applaud Josh's willingness to stretch the boundaries, with unusual formats, two-letter entries, single-letter stragglers, etc., etc. His best puzzles remind me of the best of PGWCC. (Please return, Peter!) OTOH, I like that other metas (WSJCC, MGWCC, MMMM, most MMMs) stay within the "rules".
If I can add my own two cents - I cannot for the life of me understand the no-two-letter-entry rule. Can someone please explain why that exists?
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#13

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Will we get nudges? I am lost so far.
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#14

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Ah yes sure :) I was gonna post them tomorrow because it felt strange posting nudges the day after posting the puzzle. But these are strange times.

Pay attention to 37D

So now you know you need to look at the diagonals. Only one of the two matters, and you care about the ENTIRE diagonal, not just a substring of it.

Consider how the diagonal you see can relate to the title.
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#15

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Solved (with the help of the first nudge/spoiler above).
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#16

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^^^ Same. Glad I didn't go ahead with my incorrect guess. Knowing nothing about constructing, this one looks like a lot of work went into it. Nice!
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I needed help and got into some scary areas in my search. I was WAY off but found my way eventually.

Very clever!
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Solved, but only with the nudges. I have this horrible phobia when it comes to spiders!! When I first started the puzzle, I was doing some googling and saw way too many pictures of spiders!!🕷
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#19

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Wow, very cool! I needed the first nudge. This is a fascinating creature! I enjoyed reading about it.
Good luck, fellow Muggles!
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#20

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I needed all 3 nudges, but got it eventually.
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