Guardian Cryptic #28276

2020-10-28

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Across

9a

Ordered the two cars -— actor needs to get into one (9)

10a

Run after one foreign friend or another (5)

11a

Benefits from fermented drinks (5)

12a

Killer fish, nasty type (9)

13a

So-called dramatist's unusual breadth (3,4)

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14a

Section of regiment old officer reprimanded (4,3)

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17a
20a

Like tragic Shakespearean couple, they're matched in 26 (5,3,5)

20a

See 17

21a

Wrongly recasts one in role of Desdemona, say (7)

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22a

Famous actor, one found in more demanding title role? (7)

24a

Record our scene, omitting everything within formal speech (9)

26a

Part of which, essentially, that's like Othello in certain ways (5)

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28a

He composed short part of speech I had misdirected (5)

29a

Officer, in short, not wrong about one sharing authority (9)

Down

1d

Both couples in cast switched parts of play (4)

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2d

Some yarn that is making small piece of cloth (6)

3d

Strike, subject to restraint, likely to collapse (10)

4d

Person that's good and mature presented in theatre (6)

5d

Pair delivered speech, appropriately shared (8)

6d

One's taken over a board game -— Othello he couldn't stand (4)

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7d

Top performers, some Adonis outrivalled, flipped (8)

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8d

Tie up one of the conquerors of 23 (4)

13d

Part of leg the person speaking in a part raised (5)

15d

Bass wiped with cloth, cooked (3-7)

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16d

French poet's always less restrained (5)

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18d

Creative skill from excited star, I hear (8)

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19d

Some in crew translated play? That's not realistic (8)

22d

Work of 28, or of 13 across, but less hard (6)

23d

Left initially from part of Africa for part of Europe (6)

24d

Raised support without very noted portrayer of Desdemona, say (4)

25d

Miss Shakespearean title role -— endlessly upset (4)

27d

Second type of material used in fateful 2 (4)