MEOW #78: Getting In Shape

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 #78: Getting In Shape

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Hi all and welcome to the seventy-eighth installment of the MEOW!

The answer to this meta is something a health nut might do with a barbell.

Good luck!

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


Calico for real this time
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#2

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The cat is both in shape and free. Thanks Josh!
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Cat's gone. Good one!
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The cat is out of the bag. Nice puzzle!
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#5

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There's an error in the clue to 22A but it's not meta-related
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#6

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The cat is free.
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Freed the cat!
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#8

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Cat has managed to work out... done with that barbell, and now a set of push-ups! :lol:
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#9

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No sweat --
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Next...

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Despite the lack of photographic evidence on my part, the cat is debagged.
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#12

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Not all of us are health nuts, “Hic”
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#13

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Looks like the puz and pdf are missing the title and prompt
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Dplass wrote: Wed May 25, 2022 5:59 pm Looks like the puz and pdf are missing the title and prompt
I made a PDF with them. Also a spreadsheet.
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Joe Ross wrote: Wed May 25, 2022 6:10 pm
Dplass wrote: Wed May 25, 2022 5:59 pm Looks like the puz and pdf are missing the title and prompt
I made a PDF with them. Also a spreadsheet.
Thanks!
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Submitted. This looks plenty healthy to me...
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Cat out of the bag this morning. Just getting around to posting.

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The cat is on the lam!

Fun! Thanks, Josh!
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Submitted and waiting for confirmation, but I am pretty certain that the cat is out of the bag.
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The cat is free. Very clever.
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