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Submitted, pretty sure it's right. Nice meta, very Gaffney-esque (despite the "rule-breaking" grid.)

Cat’s out of the bag

Enjoyed this one very much!

Dplass wrote: ↑Thu Jul 01, 2021 9:00 am Submitted, pretty sure it's right. Nice meta, very Gaffney-esque (despite the "rule-breaking" grid.)

Sorry, I forgot to thank @madhatter5 for the meta! Thank you!

Cat out of bag with aid of a slight nudge to help me unscramble some alphabet soup.

Solved & confirmed, great puzzle!

The Siamese is out of the bag. Solved and submitted. Not yet confirmed but I am at peace with my answer.

Cat is purring because the meta is solved.
Watched too much Olympic gymnastics qualifying, so have to say thanks for setting up the balance beam, Josh!

Finally!! Fantastic puzzle

I was lacking a meta challenge today, so tried this one. What a strange grid, strange solve, but my cat is out of the bag.

My yin has yet to be yanged. Awaiting Saturday nudges...

I had all the things to get this done and had them written down in a way that I should have been able to finish, but couldn’t see it. Came back to it this evening and there is was just as the other comments said. Very entertaining. Thanks Joshua.

That was an unusual construction that broke all the “rules” .. loved It!

Cat hunting voles in the back yard.

Nudge Saturday!

45A is a hint to the mechanism

Entries outside of the Yin/Yang symbol are involved.

Once you figure out 45A, you should have a list of entries. These entries will look meaningless unless you can manage to put Yin and Yang in perfect balance

The feline is free. I didn't look at the nudges. Honest. I did the grid on Wednesday, then ignored it till today. Because I do the puzle in .puz form, I can't easily see the ends of clues, so I didn't notice the stars. That raises the level to Puma at least. Even so, I got halfway there. When I finally did catch on that some clues were starred, the rest fell into place.

I thought this was a brilliant idea and design.

Beth Tyrpin wrote: ↑Fri Jul 02, 2021 8:37 pm I had all the things to get this done and had them written down in a way that I should have been able to finish, but couldn’t see it.
Came back to it ... and there is was

I had the same thing happen.

Just started this afternoon. Cat's out of the bag now. I did glance at the nudges, though I'd already figured those out. It was when I found another "hint" that the final piece fell into place. Nice meta construction!

A fun solve! Nice puzzle, Joshua!

got it. very nice!

Solution:

45A was a cryptic way of saying that Yin, the symbol of agreement, contains synonyms of words found outside the symbol - while Yang, the symbol of disagreement, contains antonyms:
To arrive at the final answer you need to take the first letters of these words and intertwine Yin and Yang (starting with Yin) to get HARMONIOUS

Just got that about an hour ago. Had all the words for a while, but kept trying to spell words vertically. Needed a meta whisperer to set me "straight". Good one Josh!