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3 down Exchange worker ? (8)
o?e?a?o? - probably "operator" but always like to know why - last one - now I can do something useful!

Operator

The old telephone exchanges were manned by telephone operators, and you could dial the operator at 100

Thanks AB - still don't see the play on words or letters

Agree, (and apologies for stating what may have seemed the blindingly obvious, but in the age of the mobile phone....)

AB You got in there before me with explanation - many thanks - yes I do remember seeing all those plugs and flexes

The setter probably intended exchange appear to be a verb but the cryptic bit is that it is, in fact, a noun

Thanks The Judge - yes, and I fell for it ! I was thinking employment agencies, migrant workers and ants and bees. Al done now and thoroughly enjoyed this week's crossword compared to some recently