Prospector... The simple answer to what you answered would be, if it is in your manual to operate with a reduced compliment of crew, then yes, you may go, if not, then no...
Wow, quotes from here will be taken as gospel now on...
if it makes the paper then it must be true...
Departure time is taken as time of takeoff... Dispatched wrt a maint issue and the associated MEL relief may be time of pushback or once the engineer has disconnected... May be different between operators.