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Ok so this was a new record for me (43 mins)... easy apart from the last 2 (4D, 13D, although 13D was not too hard to work out either... I guess I don't watch enough TV).

No rhyming couplets but a pair featuring antonyms.

My COD was the witty 14A.

Not bad but too easy for my liking!

4D and 16D do rhyme though I just realised. Not symmetric though :/

Thanks to Everyman.
Thought it was above average difficulty, far fewer write-ins than usual but nothing exceptionally tricky.
FOI 3, LOI 7.
COD 4 over 14, 5, 9, 7 and 23.
Agree that 14 is witty, especially in view of yesterday's Prize!

I thought it was going to be a pangram but FVK that.

I used wikipedia to look for character's in "A Winter's Tale"... but it seems it is actually called "The Winter's Tale" so tut-tut there.

My tut-tutting is revoked because of the apostrophe error in my last post :(

My thoughts exactly! Saw a Q, Y and Z and actually did an enumeration. Also lacking X. Did a puzzle a couple of days ago (forget where) that was just one letter short of a pangram.

The recent Grauniad 28,683 (Paul) was a Q short of a pangram.

Surprising to not have an F though... I wonder if there have been any crosswords without an E?

I'm sure there have been...Probably something that setters took as a challenge.