MEOW #140 Oblique Meetings

[whimsy]

Cat's out.

But I'm finding this somewhat oblique.

Wowza of a puzzle! Thanks, Ben!

[benchen71]

The puzzle has been live for almost 24 hours. Here the list of those who have successfully freed the cat!

woozy
Dow Jones
Cindy Heisler
schmidzy
rjy
Cindy Weatherman
boharr
Bird Lives
Berto
merlinnimue
hoover
Meg
Ergcat
MatthewL
Schmeel
kymike
DrButtBeard
Qmark
ajk
Carolyn
Tyrpmom
Tim
DrTom
heidi
I K Snamhcok
DIS
Laura M
DebbieC
Gutman
kurtalert
Jaclyn
SJMcK
LindaPRmaven
KayW
edestlin
Kent
markhr
lbray53
ReB
whimsy

That's 40 to get us going!

[HeadinHome]

Cat free here as well! Catching up on my metas before the grands wake up and mayhem begins. Great feat of meta construction!

[benchen71]

More solvers! We're up to 47 now:

JHSeeman
HeadinHome
Charles Montpetit
CPJohnson
JM
daemok
LasersharpAurora

[Darth]

Count me out... I mean, in! ...But the cat's out... and moving about...somewhere! ... Great fun, Ben. Thanks.
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[benchen71]

Three more solvers bringing us up to 50:

Darth
bhamren
Darrell

I knew there was something that I forgot to do yesterday: the nudges! Here they are...

[benchen71]

Nudges, in order of increasing blatancy:

1. There is no meta hint in the grid; but the title is very signficant.

2. You must have noticed some odd extra bits in some of the clues. I hope you were able to work out what UR and DR stand for.

3. UR = "Up and Right"; DR = "Down and Right".

4. It is surely significant that there were 12 such clues given that we are looking for a 6-letter answer.

[benchen71]

Two more solvers for a total of 52:

Sendhil Revuluri
MrTheHan

The solution is imminent...

[benchen71]

Here's the solution to "Oblique Meetings":

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