"What's In Your Pocket?"

[Cinny]

Off the couch with a bit of clarification from a kindly muggle.

[Joe Ross]

Your mind was On Some Faraway Beach, wasn't it?

Bruised state of has me earworming this & passing it along:




(Didn't realize how much Mick Jagger resembled Don Knotts prior to watching this.)

[sharkicicles]

I take full blame for that erroneous clue, @dpl11! Thanks for pointing that out. I was indeed thinking of the wrong musician! Mortified!

Your mind was On Some Faraway Beach, wasn't it?

(Yes, I'm venting from seeing him associated with ambient music and production credits in crosswords for the past several decades and never getting rightfully acknowledged for his rock albums...)

Here Come the Warm Jets is a dang masterpiece.

[DrTom]

Darn this IKEA store is crowded now that everyone has left the couch! I had a tough time solving due to an error in my education/background. Once explained it was smooth sailing through another excellent MMM puzzle.

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[benchen71]

I, for one, don't see it yet. Eagerly awaiting the nudges!

[Dow Jones]

Off the couch. Enjoyable grid and meta. Thanks Wendy, Peter, Cap'n Rick and Joe for the entertainment.

[MaineMarge]

I, for one, don't see it yet. Eagerly awaiting the nudges!

I’m with @benchen71 still on the bench.
Time to rise and shine @Abide.

[Joe Ross]

... and you can't harmonize...

[Wendy Walker]

Good morning, MMM Muggles!
Joining the solvers' list since yesterday morning are:
30. Team Double Tow
31. DPlass
32. Darth
33. DIS
34. Qmark
35. Schmeel
36. Whimsy
37. MiniMuggle
38. SJMcK
39. Cindy H
40. DameFox
41. Dr. Tom
42. Dow Jones
43. RJY
44. dpl11
45. JHSeeman
Thank you all for solving! And please keep letting us know which clue for 68A was helpful to you. So far Cap'n Rick's clue is winning by a nautical mile.
Now here are the eagerly awaited nudges:
Who knew?! A kangaroo word, as hinted at by 75A, is a thing! In keeping with our puzzle's "pocket" theme, a kangaroo word is one that contains within it another word or words (the "joeys") that have much the same meaning as the whole word. The letters of the joey are in the correct order but they are not necessarily contiguous.

What might be the kangaroo words in the grid? What might be the length of the joeys?

Use this mechanism to derive the 8-letter part of the meta answer. And then treat that answer as a kangaroo word to find a 4-letter joey that is also associated with a pocket.

[whimsy]

I have to abstain -- got it mainly on the downs! Although afterwards it did kinda ring a bling bell.

[Dave C]

Off the couch with the nudges, though I was on the right track before - just one letter off...

[DavyGravy]

Solved with the nudges. Thank you Abide, Wendy and Captain Rick for a very clever puzzle where I actually learned something
Ready for the WSJ tomorrow!

[Magistra]

Same here. The nudges confirmed what I saw and helped me realize I had overlooked one *. Fun meta! Thanks!

[MatthewL]

Off the couch, but only with nudges, nudges and more nudges. Turns out, I was missing a really important thing (insert head slap emoji here).

[Eric Porter]

I finally solved with the nudges, although they really didn't tell me anything that didn't already know or suspect.

One confusing part was that the 8 letters I had were 2 words but all the other examples are a single word. The other was it doesn't follow the theme of the puzzle. I should have focused on the instructions; had I done that, maybe I would have solved.

[michaelm]

Needed the third nudge to finally solve.
Great job on the MMM Wendy, Peter and Rick!

Team logarithm...

[Abide]

One confusing part was that the 8 letters I had were 2 words

Merriam-Webster shows a hyphenated eight letter word.

I should have focused on the instructions; had I done that, maybe I would have solved.

That’s always a good strategy

[Alvibu67]

Off the couch! Confirmed on CrossHare. Thanks, MMM collaborators!

[KayW]

I didnt need the nudges, but some very remedial 'rithmetic (thank you @Wendy Walker )

Apparently I can't count that high on my own. No wonder my bridge partners yell at me.

Fun meta - well done!

[Ergcat]

Off the couch! I had all I needed yesterday just couldn’t read my letters correctly! But while sending a PM to Wendy, I “saw” it!! Very clever! Thank you!