MEOW #143: "Lifeline"

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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#21

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Cat has been debagged. Fun puzzle and great clues (expect nothing less from a Dr. Tom/Wendy collab). Thanks you two!
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#22

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Thank you!
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Meg wrote: ↑Wed Aug 23, 2023 11:37 am Cat is out and wondering why I made it so complicated.
Cause that's what we do!
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:crossed_swords: :rabbit: :cat: Fun one - thanks!
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#25

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I also wanted to overcomplicate this, but the cat is out and getting acquainted with my 3 kitties. Great puzzle!
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Cat's out of the bag - thank you, @DrTom and @Wendy Walker!
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Cat’s out! Very enjoyable!
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Darn cat! Liberated and now hiding....
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Cat’s out! Very enjoyable after seemingly a few weeks of head scratchers. Thank you Wendy and Dr Tom!
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SamKat9 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 23, 2023 6:37 pm I also wanted to overcomplicate this, but the cat is out and getting acquainted with my 3 kitties. Great puzzle!
Glad you resisted the overcomplication! Thanks for solving
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Berto wrote: ↑Wed Aug 23, 2023 10:13 pm Cat’s out! Very enjoyable after seemingly a few weeks of head scratchers. Thank you Wendy and Dr Tom!
Hopefully we have not gone from Head scratchers to furniture scratchers! I have a leather easy chair that resembles a cow that picked a fight with a lion, a tiger and a puma.

Thanks for solving
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Darth wrote: ↑Wed Aug 23, 2023 9:33 pm Darn cat! Liberated and now hiding....
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Oh. I know that trick. I have one cat I see only at feeding time, the rest of the time is spent under the bed.

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#33

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OK, I think Wendy and I are going to declare this a success!

1 Benchen71
2 Bird Lives
3 Schmeel
4 merlinnimue
5 Ergcat
6 Cindy Heisler
7 JM
8 rjy
9 boharr
10 DCBilly
11 ReB
12 DrButtbeard
13 Hector
14 ChrisKochmanski
15 Meg
16 Cindy Weatherman
17 ajk
18 Laura M
19 Heidi
20 BrennerTJ
21 MatthewL
22 woozy
23 KayW
24 Tom Wilson
25 Trypmom
26 Mwoychick
27 BarbaraK
28 Darth
29 SeamusOL
30 ImOnToo
31 Berto
32 SamKat9

Pretty good showing for Day 1, thanks to all our kitty releasers!

T and W
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Cat has left the bag. Very enjoyable grid and meta. Thanks, Wendy and Dr Tom !!
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I second Dr. Tom's thanks to all of our solvers!
Good luck, fellow Muggles!
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Too much work yesterday for metas, until the wee hours. Finished this morning… thanks for the fun! This one is OOTB. (As opposed to OTC.)
The other Wendy. :roll:
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Cat is out of the bag and in my lap for his morning "human time."
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Great fun! The cat is out of the bag. Great conception on this puzzle. I love puzzles when you notice extra cleverness after the solve.
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lbray53 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 24, 2023 9:55 am Great fun! The cat is out of the bag. Great conception on this puzzle. I love puzzles when you notice extra cleverness after the solve.
Plus, we love it when people notice!! Of course I am hoping what you saw was designed cleverness as opposed to serendipitous cleverness (which happens).
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HeadinHome wrote: ↑Thu Aug 24, 2023 8:41 am Too much work yesterday for metas, until the wee hours. Finished this morning… thanks for the fun! This one is OOTB. (As opposed to OTC.)
As opposed to Darth whose cat was OOTB but UTC!
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