MEOW #86: Expensive Taste

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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MEOW #86: Expensive Taste

#1

Post by madhatter5 »

Hi all and welcome to the eighty-sixth installment of the MEOW!

Just the web app for now, please badger me if I don't have the rest up by tonight.

The answer to this meta is a restaurant.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... sp=sharing
https://crossword.info/kvassword/Expensive_Taste

Good luck!

Kitten
Calico
Persian
Puma
Lion
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#2

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Answer submitted and awaiting confirmation. But I believe the cat has escaped!!
Of course, every time I post before getting confirmation, I am wrong. So, we'll see.


Confirmed!!
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#3

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I believe I have it too --
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#4

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Submitted - we shall see.
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#5

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Submitted - I think this cat has left the bag. Yet again an inventive Josh puzzle...how does that boy do it and still manage to keep up with his studies. For that matter how do either of our two (and three is you count Ben) younger Meta stars do this and still work/study/etc.

Kudos to those who are productive enough to do two things at the same time.

(PS for anyone wondering...the new avatar is me sitting in a restaurant in Menaggio Italy on Lake Como waiting for my meal to arrive, THAT'S why I have such a smile, well that and because the wine had already arrived!)
NUDGES!I am always willing to give nudges where needed; metas should be about fun, not frustration. Send me what you have done so far because often you are closer than you think!
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I believe the cat has left her bag! Submitted…We shall see!
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#7

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Submitted (and uncharacteristically confident). Have a joyous Hump Day, y'all!
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#8

Post by madhatter5 »

Well, as I had been informed I screwed up and had the wrong title on the URL of the puzzle which may have given away the answer :) It is fixed now. So sorry about that.
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#9

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I think I have it .... but I think I only have it due to a mistake on Josh's part since corrected.

Which is too bad as I honestly have no way of knowing if I would have gotten it without Josh's error. I probably wouldn't have.
Funny story. I was all set to enter Par for the course for the CrossHare midi contest for April but I mistakenly thought midi meant 7x 7 and not 11 x 11. Oops. Well.... Here's a complex but **small** meta on the subject of golf.
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#10

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I think then my cat did indeed escape. After a round about chase.
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#11

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The cat is outta here! I groaned a lot while solving, so good times!
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#12

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Nag to please provide puz file. :-D
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#13

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Pretty sure I got it; what else could it be?

Confirmed. Thanks, Josh!
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#14

Post by HeadinHome »

Really cute — and I’d say easier than a persian… but that’s probably just because I happened to see it early.

Cat free, I assume (will update if my answer is rejected).
The other Wendy. :roll:
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The cat and the bag are splitsville!

Good one!

Thanks, Josh!
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Solved!

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#17

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Pretty sure I got it - waiting for confirmation.
Clever puzzle.
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#18

Post by Dplass »

Got it. Cool construction. TFTP!
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The cat is out and, like the cat in the Yves Montand song, dining on chicken and foie gras.
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#20

Post by Dave C »

The cat is out of the bag in large part due to the snafu with the title to the URL.
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