Actor initially displeased with Shakespeare describing love for all (6-3-5)
I believe the answer is:
across-the-board
'all' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'actor initially displeased with shakespeare' is the wordplay.
'initially' suggests taking the first letters.
'displeased' becomes 'cross'.
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'shakespeare' becomes 'theboard' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
The first letter of 'actor' is 'a'.
'a'+'cross'+'theboard'='ACROSS-THE-BOARD'
'describing love for' is the link.
I am not very happy about this link. Some or all of it may belong to another bit of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for across-the-board that I've seen before include "General" , "How men may move" , "generally" .)