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What a brilliant puzzle! The construction is a work of art and the clues are absolutely superb - I don't think I can criticise any of them. My last solve was 42a, which when figured out shows how good these clues are, Hat's off to Serpent, may you quickly return.

Agreed. A very nice workout. All done but have to reverse engineer a few to be sure of the parsing and I have one remaining ? The last letter of the first unclued column. I assume it's the same as the letter immediately above it?

Yes, Granama.

Thanks Malone. I guessed it must be although it looks a little odd.

Act 2

Oh! My wiki says Act 1, Scene 1...off to google...

Ah. Must be an error in the site I was looking at. It looks like allgreatquotes has got it wrong. Tut!

That was an absolute joy. Yet again, far superior to The Listener this week. It all fell into place step by step, with no GWIT or ponderous end-game. Brilliant - thanks a heap, Serpent😃

Agreed, Bobby. I made a total mess of this week’s Listener (as my dim comments on the relevant threads show!) and that was down to me, I guess. But still, I prefer puzzles which are challenging with a clear endgame, rather than hours of WTF. This one fitted the bill admirably. Nice innovative idea for the message letters too. Bravo Serpent!

An absolute masterpiece - no other way to describe it:-)

Massive thanks to Serpent.