125. Creature Feature

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125. Creature Feature

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PDF and PUZ

Crosshare

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And I'm not...well, you know!

Early post today due to Matt's meta coming out tomorrow - wish us all luck on cracking that Level 5! (This is not that level, I promise.)

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Puzzle #124 is still live, so reveal will be on that post when the deadline finishes!

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I think Matt said once that "Creature Feature" is one of his most common crossword titles of all time. Well, here's one more. It was planned to be a Level 1, but I think 1.5 is where it'll end up.

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125. Creature Feature

The answer to the meta is a 9-letter creature.

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Deadline is Saturday, February 8 at 1 pm ET.

Good luck, and may all your solves be beautiful!

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Pun and done!
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:crossed_swords: :rabbit: Pun and done. Fun! Thanks for the marvelous meta AND for juggling your schedule on the fly to prevent MG-squared tomorrow!
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Pun and done. Thanks Mikey
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Pun and done!
Check out "The MOAT Mini Pack of Marching Bands" here. US$5 gets you 7 Marching Bands which, hard enough on their own, now contain metas too. And once again there's a mega-meta! :D
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Pun and done. Thanks, Mikey!
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1.5, huh?

Hmm....

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Pun and done.
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Done and pun!
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Yeah.... never would have gotten it in a million years had it not been for a whack by Kay.

"All I've got is this thing and that thing and they don't point to an animal" "What about the animal that is all the things that that points to?" "But thats only that thing and this thing and no animal". "But you have that and this thing and you want an animal" "Oh, for the love of gob...."
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Pun and done! Now we await the MGWCC beast.
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Cute one, MIkey! Pun & done with this creature feature.
The other Wendy. :roll:
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Good idea to issue early with the Ariadne and Playbill coming out tomorrow as well.
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Abide wrote: Sat Feb 01, 2025 12:21 am Good idea to issue early with the Ariadne and Playbill coming out tomorrow as well.
I'll be meeting a lot of metas tomorrow!
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Week 1.5 you say? Did you mean 5.1??
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rjy wrote: Sat Feb 01, 2025 10:37 am Week 1.5 you say? Did you mean 5.1??
Early nudges!

1. The title won't really do much here, but we know we're dealing with animals.

2. There are four symmetrical entries that will help in one way...

3. ...and three other symmetrical entries that will help in another!
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Pun and done (no nudges needed). Thanks for the puzzle, Mikey!
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This was very difficult for me.
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Pun and done! Should not have needed the nudges - we already had all we needed and then some. But the “then some” did us in… But great aha! Fun one, Mikey!
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Pun and done. Thanks for the puzzle!

I used the nudges, but I'd already seen #1 & #2. While I was trying to figure out #3 I got the meta answer instead. It was like I had some kind of mental block that kept me from seeing it, so I won't offer an opinion on the difficulty level.
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