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Hi all and welcome to the thirtieth installment of the MEOW! This week's puzzle is a guest construction by the up-and-coming hotshot constructor whimsy. Please send solution submissions, nudge requests, etc. to her.


https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... sp=sharing
http://crossword.info/madhatter5/Branch ... itterature
https://crosshare.org/crosswords/slr24pPxH1mqAW3ge9gd


The answer to the meta is a six-letter name associated with the subject.


Good luck!



Kitten

Calico

Persian

Persian-Puma Hybrid

Puma

Lion


20210623 MEOW 30 — whimsy — Branches of Litterature — Excel form

20210623 MEOW 30 — whimsy — Branches of Litterature — PDF from PUZ

20210623 MEOW 30 — whimsy — Branches of Litterature — Excel form

Hope I've done that ^^ right! If not, I'm sure Joe will set us straight!

Anyhow, let's see --

Unchecked letters? Yup.
Two-letter entries? Yup.
Daffy clues and entries? Yup.
Non-symmetric crazy quilt grid? Yup.

But I hope the entertainment value will forgive all that!

******Just been alerted to the fact that there's an inadvertent red herring present in the grid, so I'd like all to know that 19A is NOT part of the solve!*****

An answer submitted, but admit to leaping to the conclusion as I think I was mostly there.
Hopefully haven't been pageanted....

Edit - was red herringed (see above for details).

Submitted. Solved.

The cat is liberated. Brilliant puzzle by Claudia!

The cat is out of the bag, and …

Well, I’ll stop there.

Confidently awaiting confirmation.

UPDATE: Confirmed!

Much fun!

Second time's the charm, I'm sure. Submitted a wrong first guess.
And leave it to me to solve this backwards! (explanation post-deadline)

Fantastic puzzle!

Submitted
[edit] and confirmed

Took a while, but I think I have it. Nice one!

I didn't read the comments here before submitting, and now I'm even less sure that I got it right (I wasn't certain to begin with). We'll see. Still, it was fun!

Edit: Oops, the cat's still stuck in the bag! Hopefully it will find its way out soon :-)

The feline has left my Trader Joe's bag. Nice puzzle!

I believe my cat is now free.

EDIT: Confirmed. Fun and tricky puzzle. Thank you.

Lovely puzzle, Claudia! Thank you! LOL'd at 83A.

I loved this one - just enough of a challenge Fun solve.

Finally got this one with help.

And cultural luddite that I am - didn't get the click even with the answer in front of me. My googling to verify went an alternate way initially.
So in a sense I got it, but didn't "get it". (No PMs needed - I got it now.)

RPardoe wrote: ↑Thu Jun 24, 2021 9:44 am Finally got this one with help.

And cultural luddite that I am - didn't get the click even with the answer in front of me. My googling to verify went an alternate way initially.
So in a sense I got it, but didn't "get it". (No PMs needed - I got it now.)

Same thing happened with me

*******SOLVERS-TO-BE*******

I have an opportunity to visit a museum sculpture park that I cannot turn down on such a gorgeous day in these parts.
I'll be away from the computer till about mid-afternoon. Sorry for the interruption, but I shall return!

Good one. A bit of a challenge, but fun! Cat is out of the bag!

Apparently, I missed a big chunk of the elegant grid construction. Now I have it. Nice one, Whimsy!

NOW the cat's out. Like others, I only saw half of it on my first try. Great construction!