MEOW #20: If You Can't Stand the Heat ...

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 #20: If You Can't Stand the Heat ...

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Hi all and welcome to the twentieth installment of the MEOW! We have our first guest construction to the forum this week - and not just any guest, but no other than our own super-duper-ultra-careful-MEOW-puzzle-tester-and-poster-of-amazingly-theme-appropriate-cat-images-and-I'm-not-quite-sure-how-she-finds-them Whimsy!

This is her debut puzzle. Please send any and all submissions, comments, complaints, compliments, compositions, compotes, compounds, and computer viruses to her.


http://crossword.info/madhatter5/If_You ... _the_Heat_
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... sp=sharing
https://onedrive.live.com/view.aspx?res ... pwXnAJxPTc
https://crosshare.org/crosswords/hcCtM9n54vuhIeyuaduN


The answer to this meta are some things from the oven.


Good luck!


Kitten

Calico

Persian

Puma

Lion
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#3

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I think the cat's out of the bag. Submitted.
Thanks Whimsy!
Edit: Confirmed!
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#4

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Many thanks to Josh for this opportunity and for his advice and support.
(Although I don't think it's anywhere near as difficult as he does!)
I want to say that my parenthetical comments in the clues have nothing to do with the answer; just my way apologizing for some real "dogs' of clues/entries!
As Josh says, PM me with answers, even half-baked ones -- :)
Have fun!

Oh and of course --
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The feline has fallen. Excellent debut!
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#6

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Catโ€™s out of the bag!
Nice debut whimsy ๐Ÿ˜ธ
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#7

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Out of the bag & into trouble! Excellent puzzle, whimsy!

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Waiting for confirmation, but I feel pretty confident. Thereโ€™s a cat wandering around and an empty valise in the corner. EXCELLENT puzzle!! Yay Whimsy!
Confirmed.
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#9

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My cat is out of the bag. Thanks, Whimsy. This was a very enjoyable puzzle.
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I hope Whimsy is cooking up more puzzles.
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Cat is out of the kitchen. Congrats on the debut puzzle!
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Would maybe estimate Calico (Persian if a certain aspect were removed). Awesome debut, and a fun puzzle all around. Thanks, mad and congrats, whimsy!

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Post by ChrisKochmanski »

Hey, where's the cat? Out of the bag!

Congrats, whimsy, on a fun first meta. Hopefully many more.
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I think I have it! This was more of a challenge for me than for some of you. My struggles were, as usual, self-inflicted. The Excel spreadsheet really helped me see things more clearly. I even used the comment page.
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Joe Ross wrote: โ†‘Wed Apr 14, 2021 10:08 am Out of the bag & into trouble! Excellent puzzle, whimsy!

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This picture brought back some memories for me. During my 38 years working on fire investigations for insurance companies and as a firefighter, I dealt with three significant house fires that were caused by an inquisitive cat accidently turning on a stove. In one case the cat was trying to get into the bag - of cat food that is. The smell of the burned kibbles was the worst part of that one.

Incidentally, the cats all survived.
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:handbag: :heart_eyes_cat: Pending confirmation. A delicious debut, whimsy!
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it looks like this cat COULD stand the heat

EDIT: confirmed!
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Wonderful debut puzzle! Thank you, Whimsy!
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lbray53 wrote: โ†‘Wed Apr 14, 2021 2:27 pm
Joe Ross wrote: โ†‘Wed Apr 14, 2021 10:08 am Out of the bag & into trouble! Excellent puzzle, whimsy!

This picture brought back some memories for me. During my 38 years working on fire investigations for insurance companies and as a firefighter, I dealt with three significant house fires that were caused by an inquisitive cat accidently turning on a stove. In one case the cat was trying to get into the bag - of cat food that is. The smell of the burned kibbles was the worst part of that one.

Incidentally, the cats all survived.
Came across this one last night... I could not stop laughing. here.
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Great puzzle โ€”what an incredible debut by Whimsy! More please.
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#20

Post by Laura M »

Cat's out of the bag, I think! Fun! One of those "I didn't see it until I suddenly did" puzzles. Nicely done, Whimsy!
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