5  Actor with panties strewn around his head  (8)

 9/10        Act, and do Bard’s theatre whilst drunk (5,3,6)

11 Actors' masked production said to lack operation?  (3,7)

12 As an actor might emerge from the wings and continue? (2,2)

13 Actor's instructor distressingly cried "Out!" - Not the done thing, right? (8)

16 Actor's time on stage makes sense, snorting cocaine (6)

17 Actors' tetchier extremes before publisher's direction? (6)

19/25       Actors’ holy grail possibly revives wife with art (4-4,6)

21 Actor ultimately starts to sing very poorly in response (4)

22 Actors' run to cast in the Lords? (10)

25 See 19

26 Actors, after work, enrolled nurse in mine? (4-4)

27 Actor at last in dubious Early English stage displays  (8)

28 Acted badly in good Yeats production (6)

 2  Popular government is inherently slow (5)

 3  Brewing agent, when in still (5)

 4  Soldiers to pay for retirement (7)

 5  Networker’s quaint time cut short? (7)

 6  Allegories' memorableness, recollected without possible reason  (7)

 7  Audience's drive-in 1s (4-5)

 8  Stars additional city-father (9)

14 Strangely prescient and showing due deference (2,7)

15 Fitting - he's half-joking (9)

18 Enable European parliamentarian to contract debt-restructuring, to begin with (7)

19 Pelt one with donuts, oddly missed, getting angry (7)

20 Bloomers when Labour leader's entertained by Soviet revolutionary (7)

23 A short time for tea and coffee? (5)

24 Watch repeat performances on the waves, say? (5)