MEOW #221 Prominent Features

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Another 24 hours brings us up to 51 solvers:

Berto
cohdane
HeadinHome
shalmanezer
FedexPope
frostyjhammer
Johnny Luau
ELSavage

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Nudges, in order of increasing blatancy:

1. There is a clue in the grid: 6D. "Coincidental features demonstrating that two things are related somehow" = SYNCHRONICITIES.

2. 6D may not help you on its own. 70A is also a hint: "One with very similar features" = TWIN

3. In an earlier version of the puzzle the clue for 70A ended with "(size and row, say)". (It was removed to make the puzzle harder!)

4. Look for a twin of each asterisked entry in the same row and of the same size.

5. To make it work you will need to add an extra letter.

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Some more solvers:

SJ
Susan
Lance

We're at 54. Final update will take place before the answer reveal Monday evening Australia time.

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One more solver gets us to 55:

omnilynx

Answer imminent...

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Here's the solution to "Prominent Features":

Eagle-eyed solvers with good memories might have recalled a closely related metanism at work in @Abide's "X-Word Friendly" puzzle. But it's just another case of "great minds think alike" since I constructed my puzzle some 12 months ago and definitely did not share it ahead of time with Peter.