Sunday Express 7Th April

[Frustrate]

Hi, me again, stuck as usual can you help with 9d "torn lame top one valued highly"9 letters ?????????
13a "bad time after playing Hamlet" 7 letters v??????
19a "food thrown to the audience by a girl" 7 letters t??????
Hope you can help. Frustrate

[dannyk13]

Lacerated
Village
Tostada

[fiction-factory]

yes, a hamlet = village
Not sure of the wordplay though- is it vILE around LAG? I'd initially thought time=age

[dannyk13]

FF. Think this is a setter's error. Vile (bad) age(time) does not give village.

[aelmpvw]

v ill age
i think v = playing

[dannyk13]

Good one ael. I completely missed that.

[fiction-factory]

Thanks , aelmpvw.

[fiction-factory]

^that works perfectly