MEOW #147 Social Climbers

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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I'm not into social climbing, but stair climbing is pretty much "Relative"...
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#22

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Cats are out! Thanks, Tom! ....
Now, can you get us down from here??
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#23

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:crossed_swords: :rabbit: :cat:
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Cats have climbed out of the bag. Fun one!
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#24

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Cat out! Took me a loooong time to fill the grid, but thankfully the meta answer came quickly. Thank you Dr Tom!
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#25

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dsbened wrote: ↑Wed Sep 20, 2023 7:37 pm I'm not into social climbing, but stair climbing is pretty much "Relative"...

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The picture quite adequately describes how I sometimes feel creating these darn things. I can often run into myself... coming the other way
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#26

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Whew! Day 1 over and crisis behind me. You have no idea how aggravating it is to post a puzzle that you think is OK only to find out you made a bonehead mistake. At any rate it appears I have been forgiven because there was a pretty good turnout:

1 Benchen71
2 HeadInHome
3 boharr
4 SamKat9
5 Schmidzy
6 Cinny
7 Meg
8 MatthewL
9 Tom Wilson
10 Alex Sisti
11 Hector
12 kurtalert
13 Katiedid
14 Carolyn
15 Sharkicicles
16 DIS
17 BarbaraK
18 Chris Kochmanski
19 woozy
20 JM
21 lbray53
22 laura
23 DrButtBeard
24 jacklyn
25 markhr
26 Philip Chow
27 Darth
28 Gutman
29 whimsy
30 JHSeeman
31 KayW
32 Berto

Who knows, my place in society may well yet improve!

Thank you solvers.
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#27

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Late to it w traveling all day yesterday, but fun one, DrT! Preferred the prior version since you had to sacrifice a couple good clues, but there were groaners aplenty nonetheless (27D, 28A)… thanks for the puzzle!
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#28

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Got it Tom! Fun stuff.

Here’s a well intentioned couple whose aim of a long happy marriage is being fulfilled- we’ll celebrate our 55th next month
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Cat's out! Nice one, @DrTom!
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#30

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Crazy how things can be hidden one day and obvious the next. Didn't see it yesterday, despite actively looking for part of the answer (well, ok, it can't have been *that* active if I didn't find it), but saw it instantly today. Fun stuff, thanks.
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#31

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Very creative and clever clue for 59D: "Born to be an author, not born to be wild"!!!
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rjy wrote: ↑Thu Sep 21, 2023 10:21 am Late to it w traveling all day yesterday, but fun one, DrT! Preferred the prior version since you had to sacrifice a couple good clues, but there were groaners aplenty nonetheless (27D, 28A)… thanks for the puzzle!
Yes, I had to drop some funny ones for the sake of solvability and then the new ones I did not have time to be creative since it happened Wednesday AM. Thanks for solving
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MaineMarge wrote: ↑Thu Sep 21, 2023 10:31 am Got it Tom! Fun stuff.

Here’s a well intentioned couple whose aim of a long happy marriage is being fulfilled- we’ll celebrate our 55th next month
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Looks like there is another thing that you nourished and grew to a thing of beauty and strength, just like your flowers. Congratulations on 55 years
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MaineMarge wrote: ↑Thu Sep 21, 2023 10:31 am Got it Tom! Fun stuff.

Here’s a well intentioned couple whose aim of a long happy marriage is being fulfilled- we’ll celebrate our 55th next month
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#35

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Off the couch and awaiting confirmation.

Trying to keep up with my solving buddy Maine Marge but she has me by one year in the marriage department. (one of the great con jobs of all time - not Maine Marge but me)

August 2, 1969
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#36

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Wow, first I literally got off the couch I was lying down on just before heading off to bed and decided to take a last look at the puzzle before tomorrow's nudges. And then like a bolt from the blue, I found myself off "off the couch" in the MEOW sense as well!

(Still have to head off to bed, though...)
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#37

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So a day two count:

33 rjy
34 Capn Rick
35 ajk
36 andeux
37 Bob cruise director
38 ReB

Thirty eight solvers were able to identify the couple in question. Nudges tomorrow for those still wondering.
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#38

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Nudge Friday!

There are two very obvious "nudge clues" in the puzzle, 40 and 72A

Both emphasize the importance of angles and one almost gives you the origin and terminus.
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#39

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Needed the nudges, but solved!
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#40

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Cat is free! Thanks, DrTom!!
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