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Hi all and welcome to the thirteenth installment of the MEOW!

The answer to the meta is a proper noun. The difficulty level is a Calico-Persian hybrid.

P.S. RPardoe pointed out that the grid on the PDF is often too small, especially for open grids with lots of clues. The best I can do is center the grid and print clues on multiple pages, but the grid still seems small. If any Crossword Compiler guru lurks among you and knows how to solve this issue, please let me know!

Good luck as always.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... sp=sharing
http://crossword.info/madhatter5/Pyramid

CREATORS: To create better PDFs of your crossword puzzles:

• Subscribe to & install Adobe Acrobat Pro.

• Set up Acrobat Pro as a printer.

• Print the puzzle from the PUZ app with Acrobat Pro as the printer, which creates the PDF.

• Edit the PDF & its finer points.

20210224 MEOW #13 — Pyramid — Excel form

20210224 MEOW #13 — Pyramid — PDF from PUZ with color

20210224 MEOW #13 — Pyramid — PDF from PUZ no color

madhatter5 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 24, 2021 1:49 am Hi all and welcome to the thirteenth installment of the MEOW!

The answer to the meta is a proper noun. The difficulty level is a Calico-Persian hybrid.

P.S. RPardoe pointed out that the grid on the PDF is often too small, especially for open grids with lots of clues. The best I can do is center the grid and print clues on multiple pages, but the grid still seems small. If any Crossword Compiler guru lurks among you and knows how to solve this issue, please let me know!

Good luck as always.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... sp=sharing
http://crossword.info/madhatter5/Pyramid

And can we have one without color to print please.

Ah sorry I forgot about that again Coming soon!

Edit: Looks like Joe Ross beat me to the punch! Thanks Joe.

Thanks to all!

I’m pretty dang sure I got this one. Interesting mechanism and lovely Aha moment!
Confirmed: the kitty has extricated herself from the paper bag.

Solved

Submitted an answer.
Confirmed. And so the cat is free.

Wee bit wobbly, but fun.

Nudged into a solution. Clever mechanism by Josh!

We are nowhere yet on this interesting looking meta.

Out of the bag!

A slight nudge helped.

What's with the litter box today?

All,

Joe Ross's suggestion for creators also works for solvers. If you want a larger grid, open the PUZ file (if you do not have Across Lite installed it is simple and free!) and choose Print. If you do not want it to print to the last printer you used, make sure you go into the printer settings (type Default Printer into the search bar at the bottom left of the tool bas and windows will bring up the "Let Windows manage my default printer" setting) uncheck "let windows manage..." and then when you chose Print from the Across Lite menu it will ask you what printer you want to use. You can chose a PDF if you have that installed or any of your physical printers.

DrTom wrote: ↑Wed Feb 24, 2021 10:10 pm If you want a larger grid, open the PUZ file (.....

This presumes there IS a PUZ file. Last week's creative effort didn't work well with the PUZ format, so used the PDF to work the puzzle. Was glad to see this week's puzzle had a PUZ file.

Nudge Saturday!

The pyramid is not only there for show. You need to use it to solve the puzzle!

You have to put the right words inside the pyramid. But where do you get them from?

Guess what I got into a PhD program.

Congrats on SPOILER three!!

lbray53 wrote: ↑Sat Feb 27, 2021 7:48 am Congrats on SPOILER three!!

Indeed. Congratulations!

Solution:

The first word (or in one case, words) of the clues to the starred entries can be placed inside the pyramid, as follows:

Going up and down the sides of the pyramid will spell out TUTANKHAMUN, which is the answer.

If you're on a phone:



Going up and down the sides of the pyramid will spell out TUTANKHAMUN, which is the answer.