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Hello Muggles, and welcome to the working week. I wish you a happy Monday and (I hope) an even happier MMM solving experience. Today's puzzle is made possible by expert advice and insight from @whimsy, @Cap'n Rick, @Al Sisti, @Abide, and @JoeRoss - thank you all!

The puzzle title is "Hello, Operator" and the meta prompt is:

You'll need to recall the Three Rs to solve the puzzle. The meta answer is a three-word phrase.

One randomly drawn solver will receive a City of Trees Challenge t-shirt. Proceeds from every City of Trees Challenge t-shirt plant two forest seedlings and support the urban forest in Boise, Idaho. The t-shirt logo is shown in my avatar.

I will update the leader board as we go and offer nudges on Wednesday.

Happy solving,
Mark


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Oh, what an excellent puzzle, Mark! Thanks!

Solved

Really nice!! I enjoyed it a lot. Of course now I have some songs stuck in my head, but that’s OK.

Off the hammock. Awesome puzzle, Mark.

Off the couch… clever construction and quite fun! Thanks, Mark!

Off the couch!

Great construction. And for me the answer was able to 22A for quite some time until I did my homework.

Couch vacated. Clever puzzle. Thanks, Mark.

Couch in rearview mirror.

Mark, this is a thing of beauty.

Very nice puzzle-making!

Fun solve!

Well done! Thanks, Mark.

ChrisKochmanski wrote: Mon Aug 08, 2022 11:07 am
Mark, this is a thing of beauty.

Very nice puzzle-making!

Agreed, and only his second puzzle . We have some smart folks here

Great!

Took me forever to get the second step but once I did....

Great!

Let the cat off the moat. TFTP!

Ok, Ok it's happening again, First step obvious, second...well I won't even call what I am doing stepping. more stumbling. I see what I probably should do I just don't know that it is in my wheelhouse to know how. I'll keep plugging though because I have a feeling it is one of those "So THAT's what he meant!"

Very clever! I'm off the couch.

It took me a while because I keep forgetting to reformat the .puz version so that the right ends of clues -- where the parenthetical numbers are -- don't disappear off the edge. Clever title, and of course I kept thinking of the other Sade song.

Bird Lives wrote: Mon Aug 08, 2022 9:21 pm It took me a while because I keep forgetting to reformat the .puz version so that the right ends of clues -- where the parenthetical numbers are -- don't disappear off the edge. Clever title, and of course I kept thinking of the other Sade song.

But not the other Jim Croce song? Hmm…

SJMcK wrote: Mon Aug 08, 2022 9:52 pm

Bird Lives wrote: Mon Aug 08, 2022 9:21 pm It took me a while because I keep forgetting to reformat the .puz version so that the right ends of clues -- where the parenthetical numbers are -- don't disappear off the edge. Clever title, and of course I kept thinking of the other Sade song.

But not the other Jim Croce song? Hmm…

Anyone else for "Miss Lucy had a steamboat..."

SJMcK wrote: Mon Aug 08, 2022 9:52 pm

Bird Lives wrote: Mon Aug 08, 2022 9:21 pm It took me a while because I keep forgetting to reformat the .puz version so that the right ends of clues -- where the parenthetical numbers are -- don't disappear off the edge. Clever title, and of course I kept thinking of the other Sade song.

But not the other Jim Croce song? Hmm…

I subsumed that into the title.

Off the couch.
Good puzzle.