….put a check in the Double-click a window's title bar to [zoom or minimize] checkbox.
I took a peek and that’s how my Dock was set up….perhaps a default setting as I’ve never goofed with the Dock preferences. Although that didn’t work for me, freelance’s method did the trick.
….raise the cursor to the very top edge of the screen, the menu bar reappears….click the green button again, which returns the window to its original size.
All’s well that ends well.