Well hello! It has indeed been a while, and BenChen has filled in more than admirably, but now it's me again. This is another that came to me while walking the neighborhood, but I assure you not stimulated by street signs. It may be a touch more difficult, perhaps a Calico/Persian, simply because it is not immediately evident what to do...but you guys are good, you'll figure it out. Besides it is common knowledge that I cannot rate how difficult my puzzles are.
Kitten
*Calico
*Persian
Puma
Lion
Now while today is the 25th, tomorrow is my birthday so I am hoping for a present in the form of LOTS of solvers!
Hints will be Friday, or earlier if people are struggling.
I am ALWAYS available for individual help by PM
Time for the Friday nudges!
Nudge 1] The graphic was actually intended to be a visual prompt to the mechanism
Nudge 2] If the graphic did not work, perhaps the clunkily worded 73A will give you the needed push
Nudge 3] Until I got some direction that the title, though fitting the purpose I wanted did not really fit the theme, I was going to call this GENESIS and EXODUS
Seems that my nudges need nudges!
Nudge 3 nudge] What Nudge 3 is getting at is that Genesis is the beginning and Exodus is the ending...use that when evaluating the theme answers.
REVEAL
As hinted at by the Graphic and by 73A, take the beginning and end of the theme answer:
8A BALSA = BA
28A ONION = ON
48A TOOTH = TH
55A ELDER = ER
71A UNION = UN
BAND ON THE RUN
For a full graphic of the puzzle and mechanism, please go to: