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🌻 Good Tuesday Morning, Solvers! 🌻

🏡 How A-Doorbell 🏡

The scene opens mid-decision in suburban Indianapolis. Inside what’s likely the living room, we meet a couple busy weighing their next move. Through the front window, the home across the street catches their attention, another chance to wonder if that one feels more like “the one.” Their agent, T. Crouch of Green Tree Realty, stands nearby, patient and seasoned, knowing the search is starting to settle on just one place.

🧩 Clue Word Breakdown

ODHGU = DOUGH
No trouble at all.
Last used — 08/04/2025 as OGDHU.

VEMIO = MOVIE
Instantly visible.
Last used — 05/07/2025 as VEMOI.

IGNNNI = INNING
Starting with the ING suffix made it a breeze.
Last used — 04/22/2025 as IGNNNI.

NCIVOE = NOVICE
My pick for hardest.
Last used — 08/21/2022 as CIVOEN.

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🏡 Green Tree Realty Roots: The sign outside bears the name “GREEN TREE,” along with agent T. CROUCH. A search shows he’s an actual real-estate professional based in Indianapolis.

➤ 📱 Tech-Savvy Touch: The agent holds what appears to be a tablet displaying the current listing. It shows a two-story colonial-style home, closely resembling the one on the GREEN TREE sign out front.

➤ 🪟 Across the Street: The home across the street shows another GREEN TREE sign, featuring the same agent, T. CROUCH.

🧠 Final Solve 🧠

The final answer was an anagram consisting of 13 letters in a layout of 6 + 2 + 2 + 3. In the cartoon, the dialogue of the couple torn between this house and the one across the street had me thinking the answer would be CLOSING IN ON ONE. The -ING suffix was there, and with it removed, the solve was a done deal. The couple hadn’t decided which house to buy, but they were definitely: HOMING IN ON ONE.

🎭 WordPlay Corner
(HOMING IN)

Limerick:

A couple stood weighing their plan,
Eyeing homes like a map in the sand.
With their agent in tow,
They just needed to know
Which house had the better floor plan.

Haiku:

Keys on the table.
Dreams reflected in windows.
One choice feels like home.

Acrostic (HOMING IN)

Houses lined up neat and bright.
Options open, hearts alight.
Mortgage talk and hopeful grins.
Inside, the guessing begins.
Narrowed down from far and wide.
Gut says they’ve found where they’ll reside.

Ink the deal, the paper’s thin.
Neighbors wave as they move in.

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