Solution - Dog Show

by Dave Shukan

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It appears that solvers have already “solved” ten puzzles, and those answers are given. Those answers are used in the five metas, but the titles of those “solved” puzzles have not been used. Those names form part of the Dog Show Meta.

First, break each of the five two-word Meta answers into component words. That yields ten words, one each starting with a letter from A to J. Match those to the titles of the initially solved puzzles. These titles also start with A-J one each and are the same lengths as the associated words to be matched up.

The matched titles also contain the starting letter doubled elsewhere in the title. Those doubled bigrams indicate a bigram to extract from the associated meta answer word.

Solving this meta unlocks The Show Must Go On.

Answer WordsExtracted Bigram
AMAADVICE
AUSLANDER
              
SL
BUBBLING
BREEDERS
              
EE
CATACCORD
CHAMPIONS
              
PI
DADDAYS
DINGOES
              
NG
ELITEEIGHT
ECUADORIAN
              
DO
FACEDOFF
FLEABAGS
              
GS
GOLDENEGG
GOOFPROOF
              
OF
HIGHHAT
HUNTERS
              
TE
ITSASUSHIITEM
INTENTIONLESS
              
NL
JOINHAJJI
JUSTIFIED
              
IE