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I found this week's puzzle to be a fair bit more difficult than we're used to but still great fun.

If you do get stuck there is at least one long anagram in both the acrosses and downs.

I didn't notice any theme or rhyming pairs but maybe someone else has?

COD - 16a "Ultimate challenge: getting First Lady to have a siesta?" (7) - Excellent.

Thanks to Everyman for a challenging and enjoyable workout:-)

Please feel free to leave a comment and, if you do get stuck, don't hesitate to ask for a hint.

Stay safe:-)

Hi Brendan,
I thought this an excellent Everyman and also thank the setter. I sometimes groan at short Everyman clues, but 25 was the only dubious one today. High overall level of cluing.
Agree it's a bit tougher than recent Everyman puzzles.
Didn't see rhyming pair or theme.
FOI 1d, LOI 15.
COD 8, also liked 19d, 1d, 13 and 5.

Great weekend of Grauniad puzzles .Very fine misdirects here and yesterday

Hi all,
I wondered if 3d and 11d could be considered linked through the “original elements. There are two missing of course.
I rattled through about three quarters and then things got more difficult. I thought the first part of 13d was looser than desirable and was not happy with 25a. Others probably are fine with both.

Mystogre, yes I agree about the link.

We’ve seen Everyman’s use antonym pairings before, each time in symmetrical grid positions. The last few have been HEAVY/LIGHT, START/STOP and MAN/LADY, so no doubt this is by design.

Can anyone help with 9A? Only one phrase seems to fit (with the VERY loose definition being 'acquire habit', possibly in a monastery!) but I can't see how that answer has got anything to do with roly-poly pudding or dates.

The pudding is roly-poly ie turned around a bit.

A mixture of good clues and old chestnuts 1a and 9a favourites.

Read the answer you have in reverse

Hi Phil.
9a There is mother word for pudding which stick an anbbreviation for “date in and tag “say” on the end the. Reverse the whole thing. Answer - what you do in the morning, probably.