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swarbrules | 16:07 Sat 23rd Apr 2016 | Crosswords
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Play opposite male, missing a knight finally captured by a queen (6,3,9)

It's ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA but, I can't parse it.

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Antony and Cleopatra - 'antony(m)[-ale]' + 'a N' (knight, chess) + '(capture)d' (finally) + 'Cleopatra' (queen)
opposite male missing = ANTONY(m)
a knight = A N [chess notation]
finally captured = D
a queen = CLEOPATRA
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Thanks. I had and Cleopatra parsed. Just!! missed antonym :-)
Thanks to swarbrules for asking and to LiK and Bbub for answering. I completed puzzle but could not parse clue (not the only debatable one, in my view: see 15d, 26d). Have to repeat a complaint I made last week. In the clue for 28a,30a the comma after male should not be there or should follow missing. If not why not comma after finally? IMHO.
15d Cry(ptic) (43%)
26 anag of G(allon) + R Tees
..43% of the word 'cryptic'
26d Goners

Goneril's minus 'Il'
Oops, 24d snuck in there...

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