Here's a momentary diversion to help you fill the time. Nine response in this puzzle are too long for their space in the grid, and must have multiple letters place in one overfilled cell. These cells, as well as three others, have the additional difficulty that the correct entry does not match the letter of the crossing entry, which should be set aside unused. When read clockwise starting in the northwest area of the grid, these unused letters will spell out a certain set of tasks. An additional ten-letter entry which reveals when and why these tasks will occur begins at the circled square and meanders through the grid, ignoring heavy bars as it moves up, down, left, or right but not diagonally. As a hint, the path moves generally toward the location where the ninth unused letter would have been entered. Circling the mismatched cells and shading the cells of the meandering path may be illustrative.
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This was originally created in 2008 for paper, with the instructions to circle the mismatched cells and to shade in the meandering path, which would look a little better in the finale.
This is so cool! Way too advanced for me - I'm a novice at best even at regular cryptics - but I enjoyed going through the clues and trying to see how it all works