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Hi all and welcome to the twenty-fourth installment of the MEOW! You should all be very very afraid, for this is MEOW's first lion released from its cage ...


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20210512 MEOW No24 — Multiple Rewrites — Excel form

20210512 MEOW No24 — Multiple Rewrites — PDF from crosswordinfo


The answer to this meta is a novelist. Good luck!

Kitten

Calico

Persian

Puma

Lion

Yep -- this one's a bear --

Do lions get released from bags like other cats? If so, mine is loose and exploring the perimeter.

The feline is out of the tote. This was a wonderfully constructed puzzle!

The Lion is free to sleep tonight. Devious feline this.

Solved

The kitty has departed the sack!

Loved it! One of Josh’s best yet. Dare I say ... Gaffney-esque?

I needed a nudge, but I feel OK about it, because it was mainly to steer me away from a distraction, and keep me on something that might be productive.

Lion is on the loose. My first ever first day solo solve for a MEOW!

Great puzzle. I had to work for it.

Just to clarify - I am only looking for a surname.

Fun!

Whew - may have finally found the first step.....moving along (on little cat feet hopefully!)

Got it, but with the caveat that I had the final letter in the author's name derived incorrectly. Cat's out of the bag, but bag still clinging to its last paw perhaps?

The lion is on the prowl, although I'd like to have the 30 minutes I spent looking for more than a surname back, please. jk

Btw I did actually find something, but it's highly unlikely Josh would have picked it...

Nice puzzle!

Nudge Saturday!

Think of the first word in 37A as telling you what you need to do with the second word.

Six other entries in the grid will be involved

If, like Whimsy, you thought the answer might be CERVANTES because of SPINNING TALES -> PINNING TAILS -> DONKEY -> DON QUIXOTE then I'll give it to you because that definitely deserves full credit!

Finally - I know the answer.
I won't claim much credit for solving as I did get additional nudges from Josh to get there.
Was stuck in one rabbit hole doing the right thing to the wrong things. Needed help to get focused on doing the right thing to the right thing.

Finally got it with the first nudge. Very nice!

Thanks to broadmindedness on the part of the judges, a large cat has escaped the bag and is roaming the greater Houston area.

Bird Lives wrote: ↑Sun May 16, 2021 11:30 am Thanks to broadmindedness on the part of the judges, a large cat has escaped the bag and is roaming the greater Houston area.

That cat has been surrendered and is headed to a sanctuary.

The lion sleeps tonight outside the cage but I can hardly take credit for it. Josh had to give a major shove towards the mechanism. I interpreted it wrong all along, even when I looked at the online nudge(s). I can truthfully say that I never would have solved it had I not gotten extra help.

Clever puzzle, with some misdirection for those of us who solve these a lot and get used to a "style". Just goes to show you should not do that, and also shows what a clever lad our Josh is.

Tom

Solved! Needed Josh to tell me if I was going in the right direction with Spoiler 1.

Solution:

As suggested by 37A, the key was to "spin" the word TALES multiple times, and find corresponding entries in the grid:

TEALS -> BLUEGREENS

SLATE -> ROCK

STALE ->OLD

STEAL -> NICK

LEAST -> TINIEST

TESLA -> EV

The first letters of these corresponding entries spell BRONTE ... which I was embarrassed to discover is actually the name of a whole family of distinguished authors rather than a single one, so sorry if that threw anybody off.