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9a. Shock treatment from Mark Antony initially getting Caesar changing direction
MACASSAR

12a. Actors taking a course for role of Alonso or Ferdinand say
CASTAWAY

18A. Windsor gentleman making earliest appointment for Falstaff?
PAGE

20a. Like the rest of crowned heads, according to Henry IV
UNEASY

25a. Shakespearean lieutenant one with "a lean and hungry look" has nothing for us
CASSIO

8d. Leonte's queen, I am turning up on being consealed in this place
HERMIONE

Parses for the above please.
All from the same crossword...this setter was clearly into his/her literature!!!!

9 MA - initial letters of Mark Antony, then CAESAR with E(ast) chnaged to S(outh)
Hair (shock) treatment, hence "anit-macassars" on armchairs

25 CASSIUS of the "lean and hungry look" with US changed to O (nothing). I don't know where CASSIO features.

8 NO IM up in HERE

20 the quote is "uneasy lies the head that wears a crown"

It reminds me of the play review that went something like
"He played the King as if in constant fear that someone else would play the ace"

12 Ferdinand is one of those shipwrecked in The Tempest.

Mistress Page was one of the Merry Wives of Windsor, but I don't see how the rest works.

Whetstone, in view of what you say, I’ll leave this thread and let the other one fall off the first page in its natural order. If you’ve got any queries outstanding in that thread, could you please copy and paste them into this thread.

re 18a in the Merry wives of Windsor, George(Thomas) Page is involved in a plot by Falstaff to make an appointment to court Thomas Page wife.
(I last watched this play live on Brownsea Island in the 1970's accompanied by Peacocks and mosquitos who interrupted the proceedings by walking on the stage and biting the audience respectively)

PLEASE COULD I ASK ALL USERS NOT TO POST IN THE OTHER THREAD, IT NEEDS TO FALL OFF THE FIRST PAGE.

Thanks for all the replies...my knowledge of literature, especially Shakespeare is very poor, hence I struggled.

@Norah(admin)... thanks for being understanding.