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1 Across, Country represented by two half-cut Blues (6)

4 Across, Bright oriental sailor returns with leader of Indian intellectuals
(8)
9 Across, Verbally unravels part of a sentence (6)

10 Across, Drew attention away from well-informed theatre director (8)

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4a LITERATI - LIT (Bright) + E TAR (Eastern sailor returns, so RAT) + I(ndian)

9 PHRASE (sounds like "frays")

9a; phrase = part of a sentence (def)
phrase sounds like frays (unravels)

10a: upstaged = drew attention away (def)
up -well - informed
stage - theatre
d - director

1a Cyprus

cy(an) prus(sian)