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Imagine the bard’s followers overheard Bottom’s famous scene (5,8)

[sequents = followers (Shakespeare)]

Queen screamed, confused after waking from this during the movie (5,8)

Listen to choir of twenty arrangement in a brown study? (5,8)

Quire - 1/20 of a ream/ 500 sheets
In a brown study - dreaming

Another go...

Director leads vocal choir, (of twenty) arrangement broadcast with a brief interlude (5,8)

I had intended to post a 6:00 deadline. I hope it's okay to close up shop an hour ahead of the 9:00 one.

You folks never cease to impress, and to make this task difficult.
With thirteen letters there’s likely to be rich anagram fodder, but it’s nonetheless surprising how little extra “trickery” was needed. We had several nice full anagrams, from buddy @2 and 15, jono @3, mathprof @9, fiery @14, and patrich @22; nifty partial ones from jono @7, peterm @11, patrich @18, and geeker @19; and a clever subtractive from mattrom @10. There were partial homophones from mattrom @4, buddy @12, patrich @21, and spike @23 and 24. The offerings from mattrom @5, jono @6, tyke @8 and 16, fiery @13, and geeker @20 were classic cryptics.

I’ve narrowed it down to three: mattrom @5, peterm @11, and tyke @16 (I love royal flush as dream sequence), and am going to go with the first for sheer elegance:

Harp often introduces this heavenly pre-gospel hymn (5,8)

Here’s your prize, mattrom. I was planning to choose something from Bergman but then happened to see this, from Third Rock from the Sun, a sitcom about four aliens who assume human form and take up residence in an attic apartment in Ohio (their surname, Solomon, comes from the side of a delivery van, and one of the characters comments that they might easily have been the Walmarts).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=bge9-8pTk0Y

Thanks so much, all of you. Always an honor and a pleasure.

Director leads vocal choir, (twenty strong) arrangement broadcast with a brief interlude. That's delightful! (5,8)

Congrats mattrom.

Aristo, I considered that I had no right to enter, as I had no idea what the challenge meant!

Well done, Mattrom. Thanks for the challenge, Aristo.

Well done Mattrom ... Soggy Sydney? 🌂☔
Thanks for the mention Aristo !

Congrats Mattrom and cheers Aristo, enjoyed the challenge and I remember that show.

Peer review coming shortly…