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Good job, Whimsy. Nice Aha.
Cat’s out of the bag.

Finally saw it - cat out of the bag! Nice puzzle!!

This evil sage enjoyed it!

Cat’s out of the bag - great debut, Whimsy! More please!

Cat's out of the bag. Great AHA moment.

Solved. Kitchendiva loved it.

Cat's out of the kitchen!
Great puzzle, Whimsy!

The prompt on the PDF is different. Intentional?

A tiny spoiler in answer to Dplass' question if you're confused also --
Maybe I should have used the prompt "Somethin'' from the oven....." with 2 apostrophes after "somethin to indicate 2 letters could be missing.
Sorry for the possible confusion and misleading. I'm afraid I usually choose fun over exactitude!

First time I’ve done a MEOW puzzle. I believe the cat is out of the bag?

Edit: confirmed

Hi -- Nudges for anybody still looking to solve --
As a follow-up to my earlier post#29, the answer is actually plural.
All the asterisked entries are treated similarly, but with a bit of a difference between the one asterisk and the two asterisks.
Sort of a backwards meta; rather picking out letters from the grid, you have to supply the letters.

Finally got it, confirmed by Whimsy, who kept me at it until I succeeded.

Whimsy just confirmed that I got the solution. I definitely needed the nudges, though! Such a fun puzzle!

Well that cat definitely almost cooked my goose! I needed Whimsy to tell me to do something that I really should have done earlier (but didn't of course). Wonderful debut puzzle and with that level of cleverness I expect to see a LOT more. I think EVERY Muggle should give it a try, it is quite fun and, as last week proved beyond a shadow of a doubt, quite humbling. Sometimes you just can't sugarcoat it.....

Thanks for almost an entire week of amusement Whimsy - now I need to go and cook dinner!

Really fun to do this meta, Whimsy.
Great job
Early in our marriage, our crusty old Vermont landlord would take umbrage at folks from “away” who now called themselves Vermonters. He was fond of saying, “ if the cat has kittens in the oven, Do you call them biscuits??”

Well, after being hit by a 2x4 (or was it a 6x6?), Whimsy pulled me across the finish line. I was SO locked into looking at this puzzle one way (uh, not the right way) that I overlooked what is now, in hindsight, quite obvious. Great one Whimsy!!!

Someone snapped this picture of Whimsy pulling me across the finish line.

Cat's out of the oven. Great debut, whimsy.

Here's the solution, courtesy of, who else? Joe Ross. Thank you all so much for playing along and indulging me!

Thank you @whimsy

Do more puzzles!