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.
I have the honor of both the MMM and MEOW this week. Hopefully neither are a CATastrophe! Speaking of cats….
Cats are sedentary of course, but they do not like being confined. The grid will reveal some behaviors that tell you when your feline is not fine. See if you can find the answer which reveals one final, fulfilling furry function.
Posted hints on Saturday, individual nudges (though it is unlikely they will be needed) if PMed, and “boasting list” kept as usual.
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!
(Comic reproduced without permission [God bless "fair use"] from Shaenon Garrity's and Jeffery Welles' sadly soon to end comic: Skin Horse)
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.
I believe I’ve debagged the kitty - will update when I know for sure
Edit: confirmed - thanks for the puzzle, @DrTom!
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Wow! Well either this one is playing a lot harder than I thought, or everyone is still having a Devil of a time, or you are saving yourself for the WSJ tomorrow, or....
At any rate, 4 people have gotten emotional on me so far:
1 SJMcK
2 Mme
3 MarkWoychick
4 Darth
If I missed someone let me know.
Tom
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!
Several weeks ago, I test solved this one as well as DrTom's MMM from the other day. (Just didn't want anyone thinking I was ignoring two such fine specimens of puzzles! )
Did them again this time around so I'd be "in the loop," and In both instances, it's somewhat embarrassing to admit, I was stymied for a significant amount of time! (Even fell in the same rabbit holes!)
Well, I finally got it, but only by practically being grabbed by the lapels and pointed directly to the method by other Muggles. I can’t really claim to have solved this one. Why was I so dense about it? Grr!!
CPJohnson wrote: ↑Thu Jun 16, 2022 7:19 pm
I’m still stumped.
Ditto… had a Meggle confirm my rabbit-hole, but that’s not gotten me any closer. Still avoiding outright nudges… been staring at this way too long and foolishly think I can still figure it out.
Good morning Muggles. Gosh, I am really surprised that folks are having such a hard time, I was sure this was the typical DrTom softball. Only 4 more people have joined the ranks of the free (unbagged) since Wednesday:
5 boharr
6 meg
7 ChrisKochmanski
8 Schmeel
Alrighty then, lets go with early nudges since people will now have those other two distractions (WSJ and MGWCC) to contend with.
CAT CLUES (in order of increasing "escapeness")
I know, I know, this is ALWAYS the “nudge” but REALLY the title is the key when used with the theme clues/answers (which are pretty clear)
What do you notice about ALL the theme answers? I mean one or two that way OK, but ALL of them?
I could have named it “Ate Up Their Time” but I would have needed MUCH longer theme answers
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!
This is one of those puzzles were all the titles, clues and themers point to a specific mechanism except... it just doesn't work and there is nothing there....
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.
