This Isn't Going Anywhere

Thanks for the Friday fun!

Fun one!

That was a fun way to warm up for the yet-again-delayed MGWCC!

Fun one to solve - thanks Mikey! it's top shelf ;)

Ginger -- puts the "cat" in Staycation. Fun puzzle. Many thanks, Mikey!

Loved the puzzle and the puzzle's answer!

Why do I feel like he's done this before? That was a great trick!

Whew! The wild geese in my neighborhood may have cause to complain after all the chasing I've been doing for the last two days. Thanks for the fun puzzle!

Awesome puzzle Mikey! Took a while, and I almost opted out, but then my mind just opened up to what you were doing. Great fun!

Hard on the old eyes, but thanks Mikey.

Which, given our recent costs, is what we should be doing. But the urge to vacate is proving too strong. Good one, Mikey! Thanks!

Argh?@#$ I tried so hard to make it about the stop sign (red in Mongolian, really?)

This time I even "Looked in the clues" but only saw the first and last across. Abandoned that path until a helpful nudge.

And you even dropped a breadcrumb here: https://www.xword-muggles.com/viewtopic.php?t=2240&start=40#p130510

A bit slow on the uptake this time. I had to go down to the sixth nudge before my brain gears aligned.

Is this meta a fund raising appeal for your next holiday?

Fun, once I got a few of the hints. Thanks!

Needed some hints for this one. Now I have yet another mechanism to look for! Thanks for the fun!

Needed the first couple of nudges, but got there in the end. A fun solve! Thanks.

Great job, Mikey! I should know by now to closely examine the clues of a MikeyG meta.

fun one, like how you slipped CAT into the answer....

I see people mentioning "nudges" in the comments but I'm new to this website. I finished the crossword but I ended up clicking the "show me the meta answer" button and I still don't understand how the meta worked. Where can I look for discussion/info/hints? Meta crosswords are a cool idea, so I want to see how this one worked in hopes of getting the hang of metas in general.

You had me going (or I guess stopping) for a while. I started with the pause thing but that yielded little of use. With your 1A STOP and 71A NOGO I just knew it was a hint but I did NOT realize it was the mechanism. But when I saw "stop" in both of them I wondered if it could be coincidence or not. I think it was ARISTOPHANES that finally did the "Oh, yeah, that is the third", which usually means I'm onto something. Took some searching (old eyes tend to hate these things) but once I found them I LOVED the meta answer and its play on the Title. A Mikey by Crickey (or am I mixing metafarriers, since you and Ben have both been nailing some good stuff!) I am proud to say I got it without nudges, though I was about to throw in the towel after I spent WAY too much time trying to make the Let's pause and 30A which along with 33D forms TPAUSES. I was sure there would be 10 T words that, if I added a pause (like ER, UM, AH, etc. I could form a new word that would be a secondary answer. I made a mess of several sheets before I tossed them and went back to "Going", and then I interpreted it at first as; "if it is not going it is coming, causing me more rabbit trails. At any rate I liked it a lot.