Wallis Simpson finally stops rattling sabre (6)

Guardian Cryptic #29139 | 20 Down | 2023-08-03
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

An envelope (‘stops’) of N (‘Simpson’) in BARES, an anagram (‘rattling’) of ‘sabre’. Barnes Wallis was the engineer who invented the Dambusters bouncing bomb. Another finely misleading surface.

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