MEOW #25: Easy Peasy

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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Dumped that kitty right out of the suitcase. Thanks for the fun!
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#22

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Free Kitty!!

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DrTom wrote: โ†‘Wed May 19, 2021 12:16 pm
Bird Lives wrote: โ†‘Wed May 19, 2021 7:44 am
When I saw the clue for 17A ("Make a copy of antianxiety medication?") I thought it was going to be CLONEOPIN.
Or LITHOGRAPH LITHIUM, PROCREATE PROZAC, DUPLICATE DULOXETINE, SYNTHESIZE CYMBALTA....the list is long, but not depressing!
You're going to the Welbutrin once too often. Besides, anxiety ain't depression.
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#24

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The cat is off the coach -- and on my belly.
Nice one, Josh; thanks!
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#25

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Sent PM with what I think is the answer.

UPDATE: The feline is debagified.
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Submitted and waiting for confirmation. Fingers crossed. ๐Ÿคž

Confirmed! ๐Ÿฑ
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Bird Lives wrote: โ†‘Wed May 19, 2021 1:07 pm
DrTom wrote: โ†‘Wed May 19, 2021 12:16 pm
Bird Lives wrote: โ†‘Wed May 19, 2021 7:44 am
When I saw the clue for 17A ("Make a copy of antianxiety medication?") I thought it was going to be CLONEOPIN.
Or LITHOGRAPH LITHIUM, PROCREATE PROZAC, DUPLICATE DULOXETINE, SYNTHESIZE CYMBALTA....the list is long, but not depressing!
You're going to the Welbutrin once too often. Besides, anxiety ain't depression.
Valium gonna tell you that is why I used only drugs that also have anxiolytic capabilities (well except for lithium which has backed into that so it is not a polar opposite)
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I feel dense for taking so long to get this one, but Iโ€™m relieved to finally say that THE CAT HAS ESCAPED THE PAPER OR PLASTIC!! The answer came in a flash.

Yes, probably a โ€œkittenโ€, but from my experience, the kind that can still confound for a while.

Did anyone else struggle with it?
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Easy Peasy
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Lemon Squeezy.

Fun puzzle!
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#30

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The cat, I do believe, is out of the box and perhaps sharing a career "trajectory" with 35D.
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ETA: cat launch confirmed
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ChrisKochmanski wrote: โ†‘Wed May 19, 2021 5:21 pm I feel dense for taking so long to get this one....

Did anyone else struggle with it?
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Kitten clawed me a little as well

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I've submitted an answer....waiting for confirmation.

Confirmed.
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#33

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Done.
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A well-named puzzle. Done and done.
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The cat is on the prowl. Challenging fill. Needed an easy meta. This was properly classified.
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#36

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I took the circuitous route.
At first it tried to claw its way out.
Only after that did I manage to let the cat out of the bag.
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#37

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Wow, I totally forgot to post nudges this week. Luckily I don't think anyone needed them :)


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#38

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That is only half the solution! I mean you may have Created the puzzle, so what do you know? You even got 61A wrong (or should I say wring?)
But as a solver it was not as you colored it:
[X]erox[X]anax, [P]lump[P]arsnip etc that gave me the answer, but rather
[X]ero[X][X]ana[X], [P]lum[P][P]arsni[P], etc

but besides that, good fun was had by all :-)

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m5rammy wrote: โ†‘Wed May 26, 2021 1:16 pm That is only half the solution! I mean you may have Created the puzzle, so what do you know? You even got 61A wrong (or should I say wring?)
But as a solver it was not as you colored it:
[X]erox[X]anax, [P]lump[P]arsnip etc that gave me the answer, but rather
[X]ero[X][X]ana[X], [P]lum[P][P]arsni[P], etc

but besides that, good fun was had by all :-)

R
Thank you! This was my error, not Josh's.

Fixed:
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Didn't get to this puzzle until last night. Challenging grid, but despite early appearance, it proved to be quite solvable, especially once I got the hang of the theme words. Enjoyed many of the clues.

Having been alerted to the kitten ranking, I immediately looked at the five first letters, and thought of expedience or its variants, hiccuped a bit on the mechanism until I started to sound out the letters and realized that worked. Nice break after a dismal week-plus of meta failures
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