The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 28,276 - Oct 28 2020

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Bass wiped with cloth, cooked LOWPITCHED
Benefits from fermented drinks SAKES
Both couples in cast switched parts of play ACTS
Creative skill from excited star, I hear ARTISTRY
Famous actor, one found in more demanding title role? OLIVIER
French poet's always less restrained FREER
He composed short part of speech I had misdirected VERDI
Killer fish, nasty type GARROTTER
Left initially from part of Africa for part of Europe IBERIA
Like tragic Shakespearean couple, they're matched in 26 BLACK
Miss Shakespearean title role -— endlessly upset OMIT
Officer, in short, not wrong about one sharing authority COLLEGIAL
One's taken over a board game -— Othello he couldn't stand IAGO
Ordered the two cars -— actor needs to get into one CHARACTER
Pair delivered speech, appropriately shared PRORATED
Part of leg the person speaking in a part raised TIBIA
Part of which, essentially, that's like Othello in certain ways CHESS
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Person that's good and mature presented in theatre STAGED
Raised support without very noted portrayer of Desdemona, say DIVA
Record our scene, omitting everything within formal speech DISCOURSE
Run after one foreign friend or another AMIGO
Second type of material used in fateful 2 SILK
Section of regiment old officer reprimanded TOLDOFF
See 17 WHITE
See 17 AND
So-called dramatist's unusual breadth THEBARD
Some in crew translated play? That's not realistic ABSTRACT
Some yarn that is making small piece of cloth HANKIE
Strike, subject to restraint, likely to collapse RAMSHACKLE
Tie up one of the conquerors of 23 MOOR
Top performers, some Adonis outrivalled, flipped VIRTUOSI
Work of 28, or of 13 across, but less hard OTELLO
Wrongly recasts one in role of Desdemona, say ACTRESS