I’ve nothing to add, except for the observation that I made on my blog on the Guardian [Orlando] thread that there’s a rather remarkable coincidence between 21dn here and 19dn there – in very similar positions in the grid.

It’s late enough now, I think, to spell it out.

Dogberry [or Shed, as I know you - even though I did 'Much Ado' for A Level - and you seem a little more gentle over this side]: ‘Kidnap smackhead, of course’

Orlando: ‘Melodic fragment is small, of course’

Interesting that the definitions were so different but the wordplay so similar.

As I said earlier, ‘both very good clues, of course’.

Don’t see much of this setter, but this was enjoyable. Liked 21D SNATCH, 12A ALLIGATOR, and 3D DJANGO REINHARDT, one of my favourites, for which thanks for the link – remarkable what just 2 fingers can do!

Pedant’s corner: regardless what the linked website says, Cantonese, strictly, is a dialect along with the other Chinese dialects like Hokkien and Shanghainese. As it says in the website itself, Cantonese is an “oral language” which to me means a dialect rather than a language.

The DOWN clues seemed to hold me back a bit today. When solving, I was rather surprised
to meet three Subtraction Clues in a row: 7dn TREVO(R), 8dn D(E…ITY) and 9dn PARTNE(R).
Then I noticed another three: 2dn AP(RIL F)OOL, 17dn ES(PRES)SO and 19dn C(HO…LER).

22ac W(RETCH) is another one. So, if I’ve counted correctly, you had to rack your brains
(at least) seven times for a “longer-than-necessary” word in today’s puzzle!

Ringo, in 12ac, A+T(urk) is incorporated.