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Cross-Pollination

Puzzling Asked on January 29, 2021

This puzzle is a hybrid of three different puzzles: Cross the Streams (h/t to athin for recalling this excellent puzzle type), Nurikabe, and Tapa. In this puzzle, as with all three of its progenitors, the goal is to shade cells in the grid such that the shaded cells form a single orthogonally connected region without any 2×2 square being wholly shaded. Three different types of clues are provided. Cross the Streams-style clues are given on the outside of the grid, and define the pattern of shaded squares in the given row/column. Nurikabe clues are given in the grid in black font, and indicate the number of orthogonally connected unshaded squares in same region as the clue; unshaded regions need not contain a Nurikabe-style clue, but will have at most one. Tapa clues are given in the grid in black font, and indicate the pattern of shaded squares around the clue. Wait, I used black font for both?!? Oh well, I guess you’re going to have to figure out which are which! Cells with numbered clues are not shaded. I hope you enjoy!

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Text Version

                * *  
              ? 3 3 *
        ?     ? * * 2   2
        2     ? 3 3 2 ? ?
      ? ? * * ? * * * ? *
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2 ? 2| | | | | | | | | | |
     |--------------------
? ? 2| |5| | | | | | | | |
     |--------------------
2 ? 3| | | | | | | | | | |
     |--------------------
    *| | | | | | | | | | |
     |--------------------
    *| | |5| | | | | | | |
     |--------------------
    *| | | | | | | | | | |
     |--------------------
  ? ?| | | | | |4| | | | |
     |--------------------
? ? ?| | | | | | | | | | |
     |--------------------
* 2 *|3| | |4| | | | |3| |
     |--------------------
* 2 *| | | | | | | | | | |
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Answered by Alaiko on January 29, 2021

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