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Hi Petasus,
Everyman has a long running tradition of including a pair of rhyming solutions. They are generally in the longer lights and symmetrically placed in the grid. It’s not always a given though!

petasus, every Everyman crossword has "something". The most common is a rhyming pair of answers. Sometimes there are several alliterative answers. Sometimes it's something else. A few months back all the answers were food related. I often forget until afterwards then realise it would've really helped if I'd remembered earlier. Just a bit of fun.

Hi Brendan, I was just about to type that I found this v tricky. Glad it's not just me.

Definitely Samuipete, one of the trickiest in a long while.

Any chance of a clue to the parsing of 21d? (nobody else has asked so I assume I'm missing something obvious). As I sometimes do as a newbie, if I'm stuck I'll cheat and see if I can backtrack to understand the clue, but I'm stumped with this one. I thought the answer would fit in the underlined section of the clue but if it does it's not a word I've heard of.

Hi Briggykins,

If you saw a person walking while dragging their let you might think "that person has ????", then you take the first 3 letters of that word/"for the most part" and add the "b" given in the clue to the end of it, this will give you a general term for "leg" (or arm, etc)

@brendan Thanks! That does make sense, my brain still sometimes ignores the important 'for the most part' bits. I'm still confused as to how the underlined bit fits in though, is it just an awkward way to get the B in there?

Thanks and, yes, I totally agree about the underlining after the "b", I honestly have no idea what it's supposed to imply.

Thank you, I’ve been doing it for quite a few years now, have noticed the occasional theme but never the rhyming! Sure this will help with future efforts

I think the underscore and exclam following 'b' are meant to be an elision of "Bloody [Blasted] leg!"...maybe some Everyman humo(u)r regarding what someone dragging a leg might say?

Although the repetition of "leg" is inelegant IMO.