| More than one finished cooked to a frazzle? |  |  | 
          
            | Completed more than once?  That's too much |  |  | 
          
            | Is finished two ways, having been cooked too long (8) |  |  | 
          
            | Mistress ___, character in Measure for Measure (8) |  |  | 
          
            | Cooked too much, finished twice (8) |  |  | 
          
            | With "Dover is unrecognizable," one had exaggerated (8) |  |  | 
          
            | Exaggerated that it had been finished two different ways (8) |  |  | 
          
            | Finished twice but cooked too much (8) |  |  | 
          
            | Drove off before one had exerted oneself unduly (8) |  |  | 
          
            | Exaggerated, implying it's been burnt to a cinder |  |  | 
          
            | Having finished dinner first, one exaggerated |  |  | 
          
            | Exaggerated | Eugene Sheffer | 12 Nov 2024 | 
          
            | Spoilt Dover sole - cooked too much |  |  | 
          
            | Tired | New York Times | 20 Jul 2024 | 
          
            | Finished in two ways, and in the oven too long (8) |  |  | 
          
            | Spoil dover sole - cooked too much (8) |  |  | 
          
            | Finished twice and it's excessive (8) | Puzzler Cryptic | 02 May 2024 | 
          
            | Bowler's stint finished, too long on range perhaps (8) |  |  | 
          
            | Being cooked too long (8) |  |  | 
          
            | Cooked too long |  |  | 
          
            | Remaining university lecturer, English, having exaggerated (8) |  |  | 
          
            | Excessive work penned by old writer | The Telegraph Toughie | 09 Aug 2022 | 
          
            | Twice finished burnt? | The Times Cryptic | 05 May 2022 | 
          
            | Bagging 500 in opening spell of bowling is excessive | The Guardian Cryptic | 28 Jan 2022 | 
          
            | Bagging 500 in opening spell of bowling is excessive |  |  | 
          
            | Excessive start to opera: composer's last in different form? |  |  | 
          
            | Germany united to underpin surplus and exaggerated | The Telegraph Cryptic | 03 Feb 2021 | 
          
            | Exaggerated | Eugene Sheffer | 12 Jan 2021 | 
          
            | Like a medium steak that was ordered rare | The Washington Post | 01 Dec 2020 | 
          
            | Like a medium steak that was ordered rare | LA Times Daily | 01 Dec 2020 | 
          
            | A bit much from ring leader of the Mafia following father back from Spain | Irish Times Crosaire | 12 Aug 2020 | 
          
            | Exaggerated number of deliveries completed | The Telegraph Cryptic | 17 Aug 2019 | 
          
            | Like stale jokes | The Washington Post Sunday | 24 Feb 2019 | 
          
            | Love Italian composer mostly? Somebody exaggerated |  |  | 
          
            | Finished on the double? That's a bit excessive |  |  | 
          
            | Finished twice? That's not rare | The Telegraph Cryptic | 19 Aug 2018 | 
          
            | Trite | New York Times | 04 Jul 2018 | 
          
            | Topless paramour getting close to loved one is immoderate |  |  | 
          
            | Trite |  |  | 
          
            | Extravagant party held by old French writer |  |  | 
          
            | Exaggerated | The Washington Post | 12 Jan 2017 | 
          
            | Like some food and flattery | New York Times | 14 May 2016 | 
          
            | Twice concluded that it is exaggerated |  |  | 
          
            | Carried too far | The Sun Two Speed | 11 Jan 2016 | 
          
            | Finished twice and it's excessive | The Sun Two Speed | 11 Jan 2016 | 
          
            | Like some soap opera plot elements | LA Times Daily | 03 May 2015 | 
          
            | Like some soap opera plot elements |  |  | 
          
            | Cooked really well? |  |  | 
          
            | Cooked really well? |  |  | 
          
            | Cooked really well? |  |  | 
          
            | A bit much |  |  | 
          
            | Exaggerated |  |  | 
          
            | Burnt, maybe |  |  | 
          
            | Hackneyed |  |  | 
          
            | Hackneyed |  |  | 
          
            | Carried too far |  |  | 
          
            | Carried too far |  |  | 
          
            | Cooked to long |  |  | 
          
            | Immoderate |  |  | 
          
            | Exaggerated |  |  | 
          
            | Immoderate |  |  | 
          
            | Burnt, or practically so |  |  | 
          
            | Charred, as chateaubriand |  |  | 
          
            | Excessively embellished |  |  | 
          
            | Without finesse. |  |  | 
          
            | Carried too far. |  |  | 
          
            | Trite |  |  | 
          
            | Clichéd |  |  | 
          
            | Cooked too much. |  |  | 
          
            | Exaggerated |  |  | 
          
            | Exaggerated. |  |  |