The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 29,144 - Aug 9 2023

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Clues Answers
Able to identify what's wrong as I do casting badly DIAGNOSTIC
After it's put up on stage, I'm wrong to condemn STIGMATISE
Appearance with Falstaff's associate producing weapon AIRPISTOL
Assertion from one kind of character heard, found in either part of Twelfth Night AVOWAL
Check power, sets, scripts for film adaptations SCREENPLAYS
Church's part obvious in sound plot CLERESTORY
Delights in Tory victory as comedy LOVESLABOURS
Dismiss, in a way, from Richard's royal house YORK
Earl's son in King Lear appearing in tattered garment EDGAR
eg Julius Caesar or Coriolanus? Right TITLE
Famous actor exchanging last two parts for a role in Twelfth Night OLIVIA
In kind way, nurse initially encouraging Romeo's love? Yes TENDERLY
It's darn hard in initially confused lesson naming writer of A Midsummer Night's Dream MENDELSSOHN
King not doing so well, such as Claudius or Richard III KILLER
Clues Answers
Leading characters in Titus Andronicus spoil the ending in one sense TASTE
Like lady's protest in play that confounds sexes with vice EXCESSIVE
Novice Romeo crazy about female — tragic hero MOOROFVENICE
One who operates in theatre, not needing screen STAGEACTOR
Practice acting in Winter's Tale, initially WONT
Quiescent during penultimate part of Macbeth — and of Hamlet INACTIVE
Romantic message for Veronese gentleman VALENTINE
Second member of weird trio having exited? Stop watching SWITCHOFF
See 4 LOST
Shakespeare, as opposed to 7 WILL
Superficially cut, like Antony and Cleopatra or Romeo and Juliet, we hear PARED
Text for Macbeth, say, putting extra time into revised bit role LIBRETTO
They support arms, weapons linked with arrows in dramatic speech SLINGS
Tinker on stage, holding online meeting without ado SEDATELY