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Sam's Sunday Cryptic XXIX: Shakespearean Edition

◆ · By sammisamsam · Published 2023-08-06T14:51:22.645Z

Constructor's Note
Always happy for feedback/criticism! Especially on these themed ones, legitimately not sure how they turn out most of the time
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  • merlinnimue 🤓25:06 · 2023-08-06T18:00:48.701Z
    Very nice
    • sammisamsam constructor · 2023-08-06T21:09:03.158Z
      Glad you liked it! <3
    Play today's daily mini crossword
    1A
    Incredibly, I shag a theatric playwright (6, 8)
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    Across
    1. 1A
      Incredibly, I shag a theatric playwright (6, 8)
    2. 9A
      "Head right over to Caesar's military recruits" (4)
    3. 10A
      Spiders end skit "A Winter's Tail," a sultan is displeased (10)
    4. 12A
      Dramatic Olivia loses self for this woman! (5)
    5. 13A
      Feel it far adrift of heaven or hell (9)
    6. 14A
      Othello loses his head when a pair of leading ladies leave him for Whitney Houston's top band (3, 3)
    7. 15A
      In essence, all King Lear targeted were family (7)
    8. 18A
      A rock is braver in speech (7)
    9. 19A
      An over-mixing for the site of two houses? (6)
    10. 22A
      An Italian and the German unearth sabotage (9)
    11. 23A
      Tomb of Richard III, Henry IV and Henry V's physical therapist (5)
    12. 24A
      Film version of "Timon" misses mark following announcement of likely arena closure (10)
    13. 25A
      Globe not bad after being rebuilt with brick (4)
    14. 26A
      "Taming of the Shrew" remake is wingless and full of sex - its main character is a dick! (5, 4, 5)
    Down
    1. 2D
      Snug at last stripped Bottom of inferior prop and safely made it halfway home (3, 2, 6, 4)
    2. 3D
      To voice Polonius, according to Hamlet, hear the end of the ark? (6)
    3. 4D
      Hark! That man's heart has been flipped around (4, 4)
    4. 5D
      Bury a third of Ferdinand hence, with no hard intrusion (12)
    5. 6D
      Monologuing king to Macbeth: "Start to go into revolt festally" (7, 2, 6)
    6. 7D
      English sovereign led, you and Edward followed (6)
    7. 8D
      Spur it in by the soul of wit (7)
    8. 11D
      Composer's back-up role as limitlessly better heroine of a Shakespeare comedy, probably? (12)
    9. 16D
      Notice a log (8)
    10. 17D
      Goof ends Act I on camp (7)
    11. 20D
      Smut Antony concealed from a freak (6)
    12. 21D
      An improvement in "Measure for Measure" (6)
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