Possible Clues:

• Germany united to underpin surplus and exaggerated
• Like some soap opera plot elements
• Cooked to excess
• Hammed up, through and through
• Ring Jules about party getting ruined
• Excessive start to opera: composer’s last in different form?
• Bagging 500 in opening spell of bowling is excessive
• Somewhat exaggerated character from Measure for Measure?
• Finished at the double? That's certainly not rare
• One of Shakespeare's mistresses, all dried up