MEOW #230 Trees Company

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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Cats out of the bag.

Fun one Tom.
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late start (stupid work) but very speedy solve. Fun one, thanks.
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Out of the bag; into the woods. Lots of fun; thanks, DrTom!
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Early returns (going out to the theatre tonight and early day tomorrow so must post now) are very rewarding, almost as many on day one as all last week!!

1 Tom Wilson 
2 Berto 
3 Cindy Weatherman 
4 rjy 
5 boharr 
6 LarsCaine 
7 Cindy Heisler 
8 kymike 
9 I K Snamhcok 
10 lbray53 
11 Darth 
12 Meg 
13 Hector 
14 imontoo 
15 kurtalert 
16 markhr 
17 woozy 
18 MatthewL 
19 Carolyn 
20 Tim 
21 heidi 
22 DIS 
23 Moreo5 
24 JHSeeman 
25 ajk 
26 D5D 
27 FrankieHeck 

I can only guess that more are lumbering along with it....
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whimsy wrote: Wed Apr 23, 2025 3:57 pm zzmad.png

Out of the bag; into the woods. Lots of fun; thanks, DrTom!
You said a hat full!!!

Thanks for solving
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ajk wrote: Wed Apr 23, 2025 1:42 pm late start (stupid work) but very speedy solve. Fun one, thanks.
I HATED it when work used to get in the way of my fun...it doesn't anymore.

Thanks for solving Alan

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DrTom wrote: Wed Apr 23, 2025 4:01 pm Early returns (going out to the theatre tonight and early day tomorrow so must post now) are very rewarding, almost as many on day one as all last week!!

1 Tom Wilson 
2 Berto 
3 Cindy Weatherman 
4 rjy 
5 boharr 
6 LarsCaine 
7 Cindy Heisler 
8 kymike 
9 I K Snamhcok 
10 lbray53 
11 Darth 
12 Meg 
13 Hector 
14 imontoo 
15 kurtalert 
16 markhr 
17 woozy 
18 MatthewL 
19 Carolyn 
20 Tim 
21 heidi 
22 DIS 
23 Moreo5 
24 JHSeeman 
25 ajk 
26 D5D 
27 FrankieHeck 

I can only guess that more are lumbering along with it....
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:crossed_swords: :rabbit: :deciduous_tree: :cat: Cat's out!
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Thanks for a tree-mendous meta - I'm sure it will be quite poplar. Take a bough, Tom!
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Cat moving a little stiff from being on the couch for so long, but she finally stretched and dismounted. She took way longer to figure that one out than my dogwood.
The other Wendy. :roll:
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Cat's out and is in the catalpa tree (OK, not a tree exactly, but in a similar category).
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Bird Lives wrote: Thu Apr 24, 2025 9:26 am Cat's out and is in the catalpa tree (OK, not a tree exactly, but in a similar category).
and here I thought it would be a Pussy WIllow!

Thanks Jay!
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KayW wrote: Wed Apr 23, 2025 8:18 pm :crossed_swords: :rabbit: :deciduous_tree: :cat: Cat's out!
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Thanks for a tree-mendous meta - I'm sure it will be quite poplar. Take a bough, Tom!
Hey, anybody seen that Alice girl, you know the one looking for a rabbit???? I want to show her my fetching smile!

Thanks Kay!
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More solvers (including two who solved earlier but PMed me their answer and I was remiss in not including them in the count):

28 whimsy 
29 LB800 
30 Mr Tex 
31 Bird Lives 
32 DavyGravy 
33 BobJas 
34 KayW 
35 BarbaraK 
36 CPJohnson 
37 HeadinHome 
38 DCBilly 
39 Tyrpmom 
40 SJ 
41 benchen71
42 LindaPRmaven
43 Mikey G

So this one is doing much better than the last...and that is the plane truth :)
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#34

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Started late, but untied the bag rather quickly and the cat is on the loose. Past time for me to saw some wood.
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ReB wrote: Fri Apr 25, 2025 1:31 am Started late, but untied the bag rather quickly and the cat is on the loose. Past time for me to saw some wood.
I could tell from the timber of your message voice that you were tired.

Thanks for solving!

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#36

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A few more have left the forest:

44 ReB
45 frostyjhammer
46 Johnny Luau
47 Fedexpope
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Whoops, I seem to have been nudge remiss....

With a title like "Trees Company" what do you think you should look for in the GRID?

Assuming you find what you are looking for, what is a very common next step?

What was spewed out of Vesuvius that did the most damage?

If I had ELM in the grid (which I did not) and there was also a clue for "Shade provider = Awning" what would you do with that?

The Nature AND Law is simply a homonymic play on words of the meta answer
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#38

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Cat has escaped after a serious bout of overthinking.
I don't have anything clever to say, but if I did, it would go here.
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Last two - darn it just missed the half century mark:

48 hoover
49 Lance

Reveal tomorrow
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YES, two more...51 YAY!

50 iceman 
51 shalmanezer 
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