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I came here to ask about the joke in 25, so thank you jono for explaining that. I think I've been bit by that one before. I was looking for an Everyman 'signature', missed the antonym pair.I think the hot weather has gone to my head.

Jules, an "eye rhyme" is two words which end in the same string of letters but are pronounced differently.

"Oxford Languages" online says "a similarity between words in spelling but not in pronunciation, e.g., love and move."

I was referring to 13d and 16d, which aren't that different in pronunciation but I don't consider them to rhyme.

Thanks geeker - yes, I see what you mean, but I agree that 13 and 16d don't count as a rhyming pair. Plus, they don't match on the grid, which rhyming pairs always do.

Can anyone parse 18 for me? I think I get the first half... But percussion? Sweden?

18 parses as (5, 2) "Greatly enjoy", followed by 1 ("Sweden") inserted into 5 "percussion, plural noun".

For the percussion, Americans might think of Chuck Barris. Maybe a T. Rex song for those in UK. ;-)

Got it now. Things you bang.

"... would not assume that us cockneys are all semi-literate"

Shouldn't that be "... that we Cockneys are all semi-literate" ?

More seriously: I have come to accept that Everyman cryptics are going to be low quality. They're still kinda fun to solve.

In my opinion a puzzle should never repeat a major part of an answer. But this one has the same word crossing itself where 18A crosses 7D, making that word appear *three* times in the answers to the same puzzle.