MEOW #77: Introductions

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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#41

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Cat and bag are splitsville!

I needed a nudge, but the nudge was just right, because I still had a very satisfying aha when I finally caught on.

Yes, the Hatter is mad. You go, Josh!
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#42

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Congrats! Very impressive
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#43

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I'm still waiting for the saturday nudges.
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#44

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Cat nudged.
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#45

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More nudges!

I think post-modern is an apposite description of this meta.

If I had said this meta was a Persian it would have been broken
https://pandorasblocks.org/crosswords-for-cancer
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#46

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Ugh... I wasn't giving it my all. Literally. And what do I know?

"Life is hard for little pussy-cats" --- Mrs. woozy.
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#47

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I think my cat left the bag! Took a nudge, but whoa!

Love the creativity and Josh’s thinking outside the bag!
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#48

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rjy wrote: ↑Sun May 22, 2022 7:21 pm
Love the creativity and Josh’s thinking outside the bag!
Me too. I feel like I really should have gotten it. But I didn't. I suppose that's a good puzzle that seems obvious in hindsight. (Sure is frustrating at the time though.)
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#49

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Solution:

Put the text of the introductory post into the grid and you spell out the answer, "It's an honor", which is something you might say when being introduced.

The funny story was that I had the whole thing ready to go when, the morning of release, I realized this was puzzle #77, not #78 as I had originally thought. So I had to redo the grid.


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https://pandorasblocks.org/crosswords-for-cancer
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#50

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Yup.... because the Preamble to the Constitution certainly wasn't doing it....
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whimsy wrote: ↑Tue May 24, 2022 4:11 pm Yup.... because the Preamble to the Constitution certainly wasn't doing it....
I tried that too.
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Preamble and first puzzle then I just gave up. 😁
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Beth Tyrpin wrote: ↑Tue May 24, 2022 7:05 pm Preamble and first puzzle then I just gave up. 😁
Yes! A puzzle from before! Because, silly me, I thought the grid had to "make sense." :D
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madhatter5 wrote: ↑Tue May 24, 2022 11:58 am The funny story was that I had the whole thing ready to go when, the morning of release, I realized this was puzzle #77, not #78 as I had originally thought. So I had to redo the grid
Ah, that’s it. I thought you needed extra time to proofread your clues…
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#55

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i tried just the word INTRODUCTION over and over. That’s a lot of introductions. Surely you could make a phrase from those letters!
The other Wendy. :roll:
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#56

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omg this is hilarious. i didn't get it, but i applaud it. best i could come up with was, "i'm clueless". and i was.
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