Whence two gentlemen came and left to get sedative (7)

Guardian Cryptic #29187 | 23 Across | 2023-09-28
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

VERONA (as in Shakespeare’s The Two Gentlemen of Verona ) + L – Veronal (later Barbital or Barbitone) was an early barbiturate, often used as a poison in the books of Agatha Christie

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