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https://cdn.slowdownwiseup.co.uk/media/documents/obs.everyman.20260104.pdf

Thanks jono.....that's one less for tomorrow!

Thanks Jon (I’m still awaiting my copy of Viz (a downside of Christmas) so needed a puzzle.

Liked the spooner and 19.

COD 21 - if for no other reason than the reminder every new year!

Could do with a parse of 22.

22 parses as 1, 1, 3, 2. The 3 is "organ"

22 Geeker, not 25?

Sorry.
Anagram of FIFTEENC.

🤦‍♂️ thanks Geeker

Second impressive Everyman in a row. Some nifty clues.

Just to note, the online version also appears around the same time as the PDF version, but just isn't linked into the index until later on. i.e

https://observer.co.uk/puzzles/everyman/article/everyman-no-4133

I really enjoyed this one. I was glad to work out the spoonerism and I think my COD (which I think stands for clue of the day or something like that) is 8D. Which I was late getting and made me smile when I did.

I have 4d but wondered if anyone could explain how exactly the penultimate and antepenultimate letters come about. I get the rough gist of where they are from, but not the precise rule that the clue is following.