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Dunno really. I've always been able to crack all my joints, including my knees if I knealt down and then sort of rolled forward onto them. I'm also double jointed here and there, and generally mutated - maybe your popping skills have always been there, dormant, waiting...
Perhaps you should just try a 3 or 4 week rest period and see what happens. I find deadlifts have more potential to stress my knees, or aggravate bike-related niggles, but maybe I'm just hyper-vigilant about form with squats. Are you bouncing out of the hole or creating otherwise unwanted shearing forces in your knees? Are you doing warm-up sets with just the bar, through to target weight? Have you changed the footwear you use? Are you stretching, particularly hip flexors, hamstrings, quads, and ITB? Have you upped the weight too quickly? Are you maintaining weight through your heel when lifting? So many questions...