Shakespeare No. 1 — cryptic crossword

A themed (Shakespeare) cryptic puzzle: 32 clues on a 13×13 grid. Solve it online — check your answers as you go, ask for a hint, and read how each clue works once it is solved.

Across

1. Sappers caught on the playing field (3)
3. Revised Bali alert involving two nations (9)
8. Broken boot or bent toe? Melancholy Dane's question (2,2,2,3,2,2)
9. Attempt to keep love in Cressida's home (4)
11. They accept blame for treatment (7)
14. Perhaps I could be blue (8)
17. Range covered by noisier radio (6)
18. Harvester, about to imitate the King (6)
21. Cupid in Messina has fellow roped in a tangle (3,5)
23. One employed to change the cast (7)
25. Breaking waves for peasant, we hear (4)
26. Death of a crown engineered by Duncan's gift to Macbeth (5,2,6)
28. Detective to comb the South-East for talk (9)
29. Some guru extols Ophelia's herb (3)

Down

1. Turns junk into fish eggs (7)
2. America's last car? (7)
3. Globe put up by brother (3)
4. Long-winded, with no yen for a stretch (6)
5. Rag editor in shreds (8)
6. Primarily red, Iberian, oaky, juicy, aged! (5)
7. Wary of a sly look at the unknown (5)
10. Son with cart turned up in gardens stateside (5)
12. Take on county, losing its head (4)
13. Brings up tail ends (5)
15. Boom over for Miranda's father (8)
16. Glass is a nuisance, we hear (4)
19. Consider admitting posh beater (7)
20. Whistle-blower spotting foul play (7)
22. Softly allude to favour (6)
23. Went out with old hat (5)
24. Papers of former partner and a woman (5)
27. Yes, I said (3)

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