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Purr-fection!

· By Pair O Ducks · Published 2023-07-30T12:00:08.835Z

Meta Prompt
The meta answer is something that makes a cat purr.
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  • Abide solved 2023-07-30T12:28:43.097Z
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  • Capn Rick 🤓8:27 · 2023-07-30T12:00:08.835Z
    Great job, Pair O Ducks! Good luck with your SSS debut tomorrow!
    • Kent 🤓9:49 · 2023-07-30T12:50:31.740Z
      Do the asterisk clues have anything to do with the meta answer? I can’t see any connection.
      • Pair O Ducks constructor · 2023-07-30T15:36:05.000Z
        The clues don't -- but those entries sure do!
      • boharr 3s · 2023-07-30T12:35:04.692Z
        Nice one. Thanks.
        • JHSeeman 3s · 2023-07-30T12:53:16.831Z
          Fun one. Thanks for the puzzle
          • Abide 🤓8:58 · 2023-07-30T12:30:03.303Z
            Great puzzle! Thanks for your contribution!
            • THC 🤓2:16 · 2023-07-30T13:37:17.925Z
              C M DUX? I C M DUX! U C M DUX? PAIR ‘O DUX! Purr-fect and right Ducky, Schmidzy!
              • Alex Sisti 6s · 2023-07-30T13:52:31.526Z
                Really nice puzzle!
                • merlinnimue 🤓8:46 · 2023-07-30T14:10:30.472Z
                  Very fun and amewsing puzzle
                  • Tyrpmom 3s · 2023-07-30T14:20:40.978Z
                    Loved it. Thanks.
                    • MatthewL 🤓11:05 · 2023-07-30T14:45:57.461Z
                      Nice one. Just my speed on a Sunday morning. Thanks!
                      • Hector 🤓11:17 · 2023-07-30T14:51:23.002Z
                        💯
                        • Wendy Walker 3s · 2023-07-30T15:21:29.258Z
                          Terrific job! Really enjoyed it.
                          • FrankieHeck 🤓10:51 · 2023-07-30T15:53:12.854Z
                            Fun puzzle!
                            • woozy 🤓14:08 · 2023-07-30T15:39:27.638Z
                              so sweet. And fun.
                              I can't believe the weird rabbit hole I tried to go down at first when the actual solution was right there.
                              Also can't believe how frequently I don't get grid order right away.
                              Great puzzle.
                              • Laura M 🤓10:43 · 2023-07-30T16:22:22.261Z
                                Good one!
                                • Qmark 3s · 2023-07-30T16:07:04.270Z
                                  Loved it...fun meta. Thanks!
                                  • Cindy Heisler 3s · 2023-07-30T16:19:46.190Z
                                    Busy morning, so I got a late start, but a perfect meta for a Sunday. Very nice! Thanks.
                                    • BethA 4s · 2023-07-30T16:09:59.575Z
                                      How could I possibly pass up a cat-related meta puzzle?! Enjoyed it! Thx for the puzzle!
                                      • Mwoychick 🤓13:06 · 2023-07-30T16:52:06.964Z
                                        Great clueing and a fun "aha!"
                                        • Bird Lives 4s · 2023-07-30T17:09:13.118Z
                                          Nice one. I thought I might be allergic, but I'm here without antihistamines or nudges.
                                          • KayW 🤓8:24 · 2023-07-30T17:13:58.196Z
                                            Congratulations on an excellent debut puzzle!! Great construction and cluing, and fun to solve! Purr-fection indeed!
                                            • Philip Chow 🤓8:42 · 2023-07-30T17:20:11.976Z
                                              cute puzzle... loved it! very fresh and fun clues all around... purr-fection indeed!
                                              • ajk 🤓12:17 · 2023-07-30T18:08:19.672Z
                                                Good stuff. Very neat and clean. Thanks!
                                                • imontoo 3s · 2023-07-30T18:43:09.960Z
                                                  Really clever! Thanks for a fun one!
                                                  • ReB 59s · 2023-07-30T18:47:44.429Z
                                                    Straight path after second nudge. Nicely done - and you didn't make us go from right to left either.
                                                    • damefox 🤓5:31 · 2023-07-30T22:26:06.811Z
                                                      Great puzzle! And so many great clues!
                                                      • michaelm 🤓12:55 · 2023-07-31T00:40:48.419Z
                                                        Excellent puzzle and meta, Pair O Ducks. Really enjoyed the SSS. Now that the cat is out of the bag, hope to see more!
                                                        • DrTom 4s · 2023-07-31T05:42:10.711Z
                                                          Well that was a delightful MISSIVE. I am glad that it was not too SEVERE. You were an adept FUSIONIST in your ability to COLATE(Sp) what were no doubt many MUTATIONS. At no point did I have to CUSS. I'll praise this from the SPIRES.
                                                          Thanks Pair O Ducks nice initial puzzle.
                                                          • I K Snamhcok 🤓11:05 · 2023-07-31T15:47:41.992Z
                                                            Fun! Thanks!
                                                            • Larry Edelstein 🤓4:44 · 2023-08-01T02:44:05.685Z
                                                              I don’t see it.
                                                              • kurtalert 🤓5:27 · 2023-09-13T19:50:17.542Z
                                                                The themed answers can all be prefixed by PUR or PER to form a new word. Each of those new words could be an alternate answer for another clue (perform - play, purpose - intent, purport - claim, purloin - nick, perfume - axe, pursuit - tail) and the first letter of each of these answers, from top to bottom using their place in the grid, spells CATNIP.
                                                              • Berto 🤓3:08 · 2023-08-01T17:58:23.446Z
                                                                A puzzle put together by a *spicacious constructor requiring more than a *functory attempt!
                                                                • kurtalert 🤓5:27 · 2023-09-13T19:47:29.102Z
                                                                  Purrrrrfection indeed! Great puzzle.
                                                                  1A
                                                                  Profess to be true
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                                                                  Across
                                                                  1. 1A
                                                                    Profess to be true
                                                                  2. 6A
                                                                    Tiny troublemaker
                                                                  3. 9A
                                                                    Instrument family for the heckelphone and cor anglais
                                                                  4. 13A
                                                                    Ones who eat shoots and leaves?
                                                                  5. 15A
                                                                    Title for Lancelot or Robin (who is very brave)
                                                                  6. 16A
                                                                    *Shape
                                                                  7. 17A
                                                                    It's taken for college credit
                                                                  8. 18A
                                                                    Scented body spray
                                                                  9. 19A
                                                                    Small bills
                                                                  10. 20A
                                                                    Japanese brew
                                                                  11. 22A
                                                                    Caveman diet
                                                                  12. 24A
                                                                    Chase
                                                                  13. 27A
                                                                    Item which a 2015 The Onion article described as "glorious, vibrant liquid [in] a thin film of rapidly dissolving plastic"
                                                                  14. 29A
                                                                    CIA predecessor
                                                                  15. 30A
                                                                    Embark on the high seas
                                                                  16. 31A
                                                                    K-Pop grp.
                                                                  17. 34A
                                                                    Cheri formerly of SNL
                                                                  18. 36A
                                                                    *Strike one!
                                                                  19. 37A
                                                                    *Place for a boat or a charging cable
                                                                  20. 38A
                                                                    Non-venomous snake of the Amazon rainforest
                                                                  21. 40A
                                                                    Singer-songwriter Meghan
                                                                  22. 42A
                                                                    *Tender cut of pork
                                                                  23. 43A
                                                                    *Be hopping mad
                                                                  24. 45A
                                                                    Speaker of the line, "What's that mysterious ticking noise?", in an iconic Harry Potter parody video
                                                                  25. 46A
                                                                    It is in French
                                                                  26. 47A
                                                                    In a way
                                                                  27. 49A
                                                                    Soccer star who's a real Hamm
                                                                  28. 50A
                                                                    Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom
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                                                                    Take unlawfully
                                                                  30. 52A
                                                                    Israeli city home to the Baha'i Gardens
                                                                  31. 54A
                                                                    Universal blood variety
                                                                  32. 56A
                                                                    Bring home
                                                                  33. 57A
                                                                    It comes between April and Juni
                                                                  34. 59A
                                                                    Reason for which something is done
                                                                  35. 63A
                                                                    *Clubs, hearts, spades, or diamonds
                                                                  36. 64A
                                                                    Tin ___ Alley
                                                                  37. 65A
                                                                    Emily Blunt to Cillian Murphy, in "Oppenheimer"
                                                                  38. 66A
                                                                    Act on stage
                                                                  39. 67A
                                                                    Droop
                                                                  40. 68A
                                                                    In need of a rinse
                                                                  Down
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                                                                    Apr. pro
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                                                                    One of three in a Mario Kart race
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                                                                    Hill worker
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                                                                    Utopian
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                                                                    Density x Volume
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                                                                    Parental prerogative
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                                                                    Recipe directive
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                                                                    More likely to wear boat shoes and a polo
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                                                                    From days of yore
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                                                                    Metatarsal, e.g.
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                                                                    Word sung by the royal guards in "Wreck It, Ralph"
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                                                                    Ambulance letters
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                                                                    Word in many universities' names
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                                                                    Take a breather
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                                                                    "You've Got Mail" company
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                                                                    Play the piccolo, humorously
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                                                                    Houston team
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                                                                    "Aha!"
                                                                  19. 28D
                                                                    Certain kind of wind
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                                                                    Bro or sis
                                                                  21. 31D
                                                                    Cleanser whose name means "good friend"
                                                                  22. 32D
                                                                    ___ of Capricorn
                                                                  23. 33D
                                                                    Duolingo goal, for many
                                                                  24. 35D
                                                                    Star Wars name that sounds like a songbird
                                                                  25. 37D
                                                                    Word with hat or clothes
                                                                  26. 39D
                                                                    They're numbered on highways
                                                                  27. 41D
                                                                    See 52D
                                                                  28. 44D
                                                                    As the Wicked Snake of the West might say, "I'm ____!"
                                                                  29. 47D
                                                                    Gut punch sound
                                                                  30. 48D
                                                                    Essay's subject
                                                                  31. 50D
                                                                    Descriptor for an Andes bar
                                                                  32. 51D
                                                                    "Untrue!"
                                                                  33. 52D
                                                                    With 41D, hightail it, slangily
                                                                  34. 53D
                                                                    Opera selection for one
                                                                  35. 55D
                                                                    Genesis grandson
                                                                  36. 56D
                                                                    Country between PRT and FRA
                                                                  37. 58D
                                                                    Towing org. (or the sound you might make when you need to call them)
                                                                  38. 60D
                                                                    H
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                                                                    Forty winks
                                                                  40. 62D
                                                                    "___ the grey stuff, it's delicious! Don't believe me? Ask the dishes!"
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