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What a fun Everyman this was, quite tricky in places but with enough of the usual anagrams, initial letters, and hiddens to help navigate us through the sticky patches.

I don't know if these count as rhyming pairs but there are some answers with common endings, other than that I didn't notice any theme.

1a and 9a both took an age to parse and, in fact, in 9a I couldn't even initially see a definition! But a scroll through the dictionary sorted everything out:-)

COD - I had initially picked 19d with its "neglected corporation" but was then tickled by the toothless Yankee in 18d and, once I'd finally figured out the wordplay, also thought 1a was worthy of an honourable mention.

Thanks to Everyman for fun and challenging puzzle.

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This was one of the quicker Everyman solves in recent memory.

Solid crossword, thanks to Everyman. One quibble: a few short clues perhaps slightly pedestrian.

Possible quadruple of rhymers? (or eye rhymes, I'm never sure).
FOI 10, LOI 14.
COD 1a, also liked 10, 18 and 9.

Interesting Meet the Solver this week. Contrary to my occasional speculations, Everyman has always been a single setter. Identity now revealed?

https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/crossword-blog/2022/nov/26/meet-the-setter-the-observers-everyman

Wow, that's brilliant - thanks Geeker, a thoroughly enjoyable read ...oh, and add me to the list of people who thought Everyman was more than one person, at least in the last few years.

The three clues Enigmatist refers to in this week's The i newspaper are:-

Lecture that might be a little flat (7)

State whose borders are all land - or entirely water, we're told (4,3)

Where to buy goose and gander (8)

Interestingly, when I click on the 200th puzzle it opens this one, but I can't see the "quiet celebration" referred to, no shock there though - it would need flashing lights and a siren just to give me fighting chance😂

Solutions 10 and 11 might constitute a bit of a celebration.
I can't see any Ninas, though there's an apparently irrelevant/random ROASTED backward in the 4th row.

I presume he is celebrating by breaking open a 10a. I thought I should comment since I am honoured to be associated primarily with his 200th crossword.

Indeed Rainman, you got your own clue - I'm envious 😀

Incidentally, I wonder if the two letters in the row immediately above 10a are entirely coincidental. I guess it's too short to count as a Nina.

Interestingly, both his 100th and 200th puzzle had the 4 long perimeter clues ending with the same 5-letter word (8 in all). But I can't see the significance of that (olfactory) 5-letter word.

No doubt a spurious "Nina", but there's "I LOL" going both up and down in the 8th column. 🤣