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Reviews when the play’s no longer showing (4,4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

runs over

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'reviews' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are verbs in their -s form, I cannot see how one could define the other.

'the play's no longer showing' is the wordplay.
'the play's' becomes 'runs' (run is a kind of play).
'no' becomes 'o' (resembles 0 - 'no' can mean 'zero').
'longer showing' becomes 'ver' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'runs'+'o'+'ver'='RUNS OVER'

'when' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for runs over that I've seen before include "Goes through" , "Rehearses" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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