MEOW #68: Excalibur

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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MEOW #68: Excalibur

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Hi all and welcome to the sixty-eighth installment of the MEOW! This week's answer is what is needed to free Excalibur*

Lynx:

https://crossword.info/kvassword/EXCALIBUR
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... sp=sharing

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* And no Tom the answer is not ARTHURIZATION.
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Cat is out of the bag! Love the grid art, and the "aha" moment was fun, too.

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Ben has graciously pointed out my meta answer is misspelled. I made it in a hurry. Sorry!
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I feel much better after reading Josh’s note. Yes, it is misspelled. Lol!
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Cat is de-bagged...
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madhatter5 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 16, 2022 3:15 am Hi all and welcome to the sixty-eighth installment of the MEOW! This week's answer is what is needed to free Excalibur*

Lynx:

https://crossword.info/kvassword/EXCALIBUR
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... sp=sharing

Kitten
Calico
Persian
Puma
Lion

* And no Tom the answer is not ARTHURIZATION.
Well then it should be EPEEndectomy?
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Man my bad luck continues. I am SURE I know what Josh wants, but I'll be darned if I can make my assumption fit the GRID I have solved.

Are you allowed to make your own grid, solve that and submit?????
NUDGES!I am always willing to give nudges where needed; metas should be about fun, not frustration. Send me what you have done so far because often you are closer than you think!
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The cat and bag are headed to divorce court.

Awaiting confirmation, though confident. I too am seeing a misspelling — and I hope I’m seeing that misspelling correctly (if you know what I mean).

Fun!

Thanks, Josh!
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I believe the cat is free.
EDIT: Confirmed. Not an easy puzzle but creative as always.
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I'm grubbing in the dirt and I don't even know if there's a potato down there...... *sigh*.
I guess I should change my signature, and start promoting this meta: Hungry Little Creature. I was going to sent it to people for testing but I dropped the ball on it.
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Pretty sure I have it, and that the cat is up to his old tricks --
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Not seeing anything except some pretty clever grid art…
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DrTom wrote: ↑Wed Mar 16, 2022 12:58 pm Man my bad luck continues. I am SURE I know what Josh wants, but I'll be darned if I can make my assumption fit the GRID I have solved.

Are you allowed to make your own grid, solve that and submit?????
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Cat free. What happened to Whimsy? I thought she kept Josh from going off the tracks.
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oldjudge wrote: ↑Wed Mar 16, 2022 6:49 pm Cat free. What happened to Whimsy? I thought she kept Josh from going off the tracks.
In fact Claudia sent me a puzzle for this week and, spotlight-seeking vagabond that I am I decided to speed-make one of my own.

Well I learned my lesson :)
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Sheesh! Well with a nudge and finally a hard slap to the head the cat was freed. I am SUCH a victim of habit that I could not solve because I wanted it to be a certain thing and it wasn't. Very clever GRID and puzzle, and of course a "truly Madhatter" kind of mechanism.

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DrTom wrote: ↑Thu Mar 17, 2022 2:06 am Sheesh! Well with a nudge and finally a hard slap to the head the cat was freed. I am SUCH a victim of habit that I could not solve because I wanted it to be a certain thing and it wasn't. Very clever GRID and puzzle, and of course a "truly Madhatter" kind of mechanism.


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I dunno. Giving up on what I thoughted he wantsted to had, doesn't mean I can find whats he does wantses to has any easier.

I have nothing at all except that I know three things he doesn't wants.
I guess I should change my signature, and start promoting this meta: Hungry Little Creature. I was going to sent it to people for testing but I dropped the ball on it.
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woozy wrote: ↑Thu Mar 17, 2022 2:23 pm
DrTom wrote: ↑Thu Mar 17, 2022 2:06 am Sheesh! Well with a nudge and finally a hard slap to the head the cat was freed. I am SUCH a victim of habit that I could not solve because I wanted it to be a certain thing and it wasn't. Very clever GRID and puzzle, and of course a "truly Madhatter" kind of mechanism.


catsword.jpg
I dunno. Giving up on what I thoughted he wantsted to had, doesn't mean I can find whats he does wantses to has any easier.

I have nothing at all except that I know three things he doesn't wants.
You ok, @woozy? You sound a little...woozy.
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Grasping at straws when a MEOW continually comes up empty while others say "oh, I get it" always brings out the inner Gollum in me.

I know four things he doesn't wants but doesn't knows whats he does wants.
I guess I should change my signature, and start promoting this meta: Hungry Little Creature. I was going to sent it to people for testing but I dropped the ball on it.
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woozy wrote: ↑Thu Mar 17, 2022 2:46 pm Grasping at straws when a MEOW continually comes up empty
Right there with you, tho I’m also simultaneously going fishing with no bait…
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