MEOW #55: Centers of Power

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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Fun solve.
The cat is ready to stop fidgeting in the bag and get back his idea of fun
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#22

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Cat is out of the bag. Lots of staring, rabbit chasing and a good night’s sleep required. But a 100% click and nice aha moment!
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#23

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Cat has powered out of bag.
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Thanks for a fun puzzle!
Contest Crosswords Combating Cancer (CCCC) is a bundle of 16 metapuzzles created to help raise money for cancer-related charities. It is available at CrosswordsForCancer.com.
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Cat free! (Just like my home...)
The other Wendy. :roll:
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#25

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George (not Jorts!) seems to have found his way out of the bag.
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#26

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🐈has ␛🦍d.
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#27

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Waiting for Saturday nudges.....
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#28

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Nudge Saturday!

Look between the circles!

No no I mean look between the circles

KM HJ JL DF SR GI HJ RT
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Got it; after being rather dense and chasing too many wrong tails.
At this point I don't think my cat deserves to come out of the box.
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#30

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Needed the first two nudges, and obviously need a lesson in checking the veracity of my Grid. The Hints helped me find and error that would have made solving even more impossible than I was finding it. Another clever Josh trick and fun puzzle once one has all the right answers.

Cat released, but perhaps not at the right moment?
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whimsy wrote: ↑Sat Dec 18, 2021 8:58 pm Got it; after being rather dense and chasing too many wrong tails.
At this point I don't think my cat deserves to come out of the box.
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"5.5 lbs" --- I think there is a units error here. 5.5 kg seems more like it in my experience of cats (sample size 10).
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Well, I finally got it....needed help from Cinny, even after the nudges.
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hoover wrote: ↑Sun Dec 19, 2021 8:28 pm
whimsy wrote: ↑Sat Dec 18, 2021 8:58 pm Got it; after being rather dense and chasing too many wrong tails.
At this point I don't think my cat deserves to come out of the box.
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"5.5 lbs" --- I think there is a units error here. 5.5 kg seems more like it in my experience of cats (sample size 10).
Well, I stick to words and not numbers so I actually have no idea what all those equivalents amounted to.
But I suppose there have always been issues when it comes to "fat cats." :)
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whimsy wrote: ↑Sat Dec 18, 2021 8:58 pm Got it; after being rather dense and chasing too many wrong tails.
At this point I don't think my cat deserves to come out of the box.
dense_LI.jpg
At our house the biological density is 1 per 700 cu ft :D
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#35

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Sorry forgot to post the solution again.

Each pair of adjacent circles contains letters that are two apart alphabetically. The letters between them spell out the answer, INNER CIRCLES
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