MEOW #152 Let My People Go

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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Bastet is still sleeping on the couch.
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Taking a break from intermittently noodling (and noodling) this puzzle to wish you the happiest of birthdays - may all your celebrating be on the shore today!
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hoover wrote: Thu Oct 26, 2023 9:34 am Bastet is still sleeping on the couch.
Just so long as the puzzle is not turning you into a Bastet case... :)
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rjy wrote: Thu Oct 26, 2023 11:47 am Taking a break from intermittently noodling (and noodling) this puzzle to wish you the happiest of birthdays - may all your celebrating be on the shore today!
Thank you so much!
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Happy Birthday, DrTom! the cat is still bagged .... not seeing my way out of Egypt.
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Ergcat wrote: Thu Oct 26, 2023 3:45 pm Happy Birthday, DrTom! the cat is still bagged .... not seeing my way out of Egypt.
Sent you some directions for leaving the desert!
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Out of the bag but definitely not letting my people go.
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Thanks, DrTom!
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Definitely not the rush to solve that I had hoped for, but not nothing either:

23 Abide
24 lbray53
25 Alex Sisti
26 Whimsy

I will post nudges tomorrow AM.
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Maybe by tomorrow everyone will be finished, or frustrated, with WSJCC! I can hope.....
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DrTom wrote: Thu Oct 26, 2023 9:12 pm Definitely not the rush to solve that I had hoped for, but not nothing either:
Solvers are but the tip of the iceberg… judge by the entirety of the iceberg! I ain’t got it yet but am thoroughly enjoying the journey, good doctor!
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Hope yours was a happy birthday, @DrTom
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Darth wrote: Fri Oct 27, 2023 12:15 am Hope yours was a happy birthday, @DrTom
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Aww, what a mice gift!
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Time for the Friday nudges!

The graphic was actually intended to be a visual prompt to the mechanism

If the graphic did not work, perhaps the clunkily worded 73A will give you the needed push

Until I got some direction that the title, though fitting the purpose I wanted did not really fit the theme, I was going to call this GENESIS and EXODUS
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GOT IT!! Ooo, could not get out of a certain rabbit hole, but the nudges freed the cat. Chuckled at how apt the answer turned out to be too… good one, DrT, thanks!
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rjy wrote: Fri Oct 27, 2023 9:37 am GOT IT!! Ooo, could not get out of a certain rabbit hole, but the nudges freed the cat. Chuckled at how apt the answer turned out to be too… good one, DrT, thanks!
Hmm, I wonder if it is the one I think????
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Hmmm. Had I seen nudge 3 first I'd have been totally lost and never gotten it.
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woozy wrote: Fri Oct 27, 2023 10:55 am Hmmm. Had I seen nudge 3 first I'd have been totally lost and never gotten it.
Yeah! I’m still lost! I had already figured out nudge 1 & 2 but then nudge 3 just got me all lost again! 😂😂
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Ergcat wrote: Fri Oct 27, 2023 2:48 pm
woozy wrote: Fri Oct 27, 2023 10:55 am Hmmm. Had I seen nudge 3 first I'd have been totally lost and never gotten it.
Yeah! I’m still lost! I had already figured out nudge 1 & 2 but then nudge 3 just got me all lost again! 😂😂
Then ignore nudge 3. IMO it leads to a very definite and misleading red herring that really does have nothing to do with the meta.... Of course, if I had any idea what it was supposed to mean it might be useful but I have no idea what it meant.
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:crossed_swords: :rabbit: :cat: :birthday: Nice one, Tom! But how embarrassing that it took me quite a while to realize I'd seen this puzzle before under a different title. Looking on the bright side, I got to enjoy the AHA! moment twice.
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Seems that my nudges need nudges!

What Nudge 3 is getting at is that Genesis is the beginning and Exodus is the ending...use that when evaluating the theme answers.
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