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Cat is out. Nudge #2 helped since I had been looking for the wrong thing. Thanks, Chris!

DrTom wrote: ↑Fri Jul 21, 2023 1:28 am OK, then some nudges....

The Title, The Title, The Title...what is it telling you to look for?

Clue 1A was intended to be a "foothold". It probably would have been better if we had not had the "you" at the end

Hard to believe 30A is not a meta clue...

Nudged out of the bag. Fun one - thanks guys!

This just proves that I'm better at checkers.

We're going 0/3 on some clever, yet-to-be-determined name for the three consecutive metas starting with M (MMM, MOAT, MEOW).

Obviously, @lbray53, I want to solve this to get to the comments thread!

OK, that' a little better:

19 Pair O Ducks
20 hoover
21 Cindy Weatrherman
22 kurtalert
23 Qmark
24 Katiedid
25 lbray
26 DIS
27 Cindy Heisler
28 Carolyn
29 merlinimue
30 woozy
31 CPJohnson
32 KayW
33 rjy

It is either because everyone (A) raced through (B) gave up on WSJCC and MGWCC, either way, good way to spend your time. Chris's puzzle is getting all kinds of interesting comments and rabbit holes.

Forgot to post this morning- bounced back to this after flailing on WSJ and MGWCC (and still flailing), but finally got this after a helpful nudge on top of the two posted. Tough week of metas, but a nice aha! here once the scales fell from my eyes. Thanks, Chris (and DrT too!)

*Finally* saw this after I'd given up like 5 times. My fault, not the puzzle's. Thanks!

Update on solvers:
34 Dow Jones
35 ajk
36 David Clyde

Reveal will be tomorrow. If anyone still wants/needs nudges please PM either Chris or myself.

I fell for the fake themer trap again! Cat's out of the bag!

Well two more solvers dashed for the finish line:
37 JM
38 MikeyG

Thirty eight is not a bad number of people to derive satisfaction from a puzzle. I suppose the drink everyone will be celebrating with is a Jaggermeister?

The REVEAL!!!!!
Well this one was a bit of a challenge, mainly because mechanisms hidden in clues are hard, and mechanisms that rely on picking out words hidden in other words just seem to be harder. However, they are fair game and certainly have been popping up all over the place in different incarnations. We had a total of 38 solvers and it appeared that all of them had fun with the puzzle, so mission accomplished.

The meta prompt was a last minute bit of inspiration by Chris and I when we saw we could tie one of Sir Mick's iconic hits to it. It seemed to resonate with all the solvers so we are counting it a success. The "nudge clue" (1A), which I have to take credit for, was not particularly good. The hope was that the solver would go from "clues inside" to "inside clues" and it worked but only about half as well as desired. As mentioned, probably should have left off the final "you".
OK then, a rest for a day then one from me is in the offing, but don't ask for a preview, even Wild Horses couldn't drag it out of me. So let me just end by hoping this is a red letter day for you, I mean who couldn't like a Ruby Tuesday....

This might be your best puzzle yet, Chris.