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• Theatrical piece by doctor, an arts graduate
• The four longest Across answers can cause it, and their last words suggest it
• Drink before a crisis
• Serious TV show
• Maiden in RADA performing emotional episode
• Comedy-___
• With 18-Across, someone who makes things emotionally turbulent
• Hardly playful play
• Medic with a degree works in theatre
• Typical of what's produced in 18 across, for example, in crisis
• A work performed by actors
• Serious movie genre
• Something for half of those in 1 down producing histrionics
• It often surrounds high-maintenance people
• What gossipy people love to stir up