The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 9th August 2023

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 9th August 2023. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Tinker on stage, holding online meeting without ado
AAcross 5:	Assertion from one kind of character heard, found in either part of Twelfth Night
AAcross 9:	Quiescent during penultimate part of Macbeth — and of Hamlet
AAcross 10:	They support arms, weapons linked with arrows in dramatic speech
AAcross 12:	It's darn hard in initially confused lesson naming writer of A Midsummer Night's Dream
AAcross 15:	Leading characters in Titus Andronicus spoil the ending in one sense
AAcross 17:	Appearance with Falstaff's associate producing weapon	AIRPISTOL
AAcross 18:	Second member of weird trio having exited? Stop watching
AAcross 19:	Earl's son in King Lear appearing in tattered garment
AAcross 20:	Check power, sets, scripts for film adaptations
AAcross 24:	Famous actor exchanging last two parts for a role in Twelfth Night	OLIVIA
AAcross 25:	Text for Macbeth, say, putting extra time into revised bit role
AAcross 26:	King not doing so well, such as Claudius or Richard III
AAcross 27:	In kind way, nurse initially encouraging Romeo's love? Yes
DDown 1:	After it's put up on stage, I'm wrong to condemn
DDown 2:	Able to identify what's wrong as I do casting badly
DDown 3:	eg Julius Caesar or Coriolanus? Right
DDown 4:	Delights in Tory victory as comedy	LOVESLABOURS
DDown 6:	Romantic message for Veronese gentleman
DDown 7:	Practice acting in Winter's Tale, initially
DDown 8:	See 4
DDown 11:	Novice Romeo crazy about female — tragic hero	MOOROFVENICE
DDown 13:	One who operates in theatre, not needing screen	STAGEACTOR
DDown 14:	Church's part obvious in sound plot
DDown 16:	Like lady's protest in play that confounds sexes with vice
DDown 21:	Superficially cut, like Antony and Cleopatra or Romeo and Juliet, we hear
DDown 22:	Dismiss, in a way, from Richard's royal house
DDown 23:	Shakespeare, as opposed to 7