Crossword 604

What's in a name? by Mass

A prize of ten pounds will be awarded for the first correct solution opened on 9 May. Entries to: Crossword 604, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WCIN 2LL.

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A component 'n each italic name clues the light: e.g. GROOVE might be clued by RUT in Brutus. The remaining clues are normal. Ignore an accent.

Name Address ACROSS

1 Portia (5)

6 Shylock's former player? (7) 11 Peevish wife backs Macbeth's ends and unusual bearing (10, hyphened) 13 Pistol (9) 15 Ruminant in Agincourt — e.g. Gower (4) 16 Hamlet (7) 17 Prospero (7) 18 Florizel's cymbal (3) 19 I 'id Capulet's broiled fish (10) 21 Your fit Bard's elated (5) 24 Second bellow from Will to scare birds (4) 27 Agrippa (4) 28 Charmian (5) 30 Tax? Lear possibly included jot not included in dowry (10) 33 Desdemona (3) 35 Trifle mainly thrust in Macduff's pouch (7) 36 King Fool caught out with article of a philosopher (7) 37 Dull's reflecting about one • canopy (4) 38 I realised Mouldy's a perfec- tionist (9) 39 Slight niggle: scene opening cut crudely (10) 40 Enobarbus (7) 41 Achilles (5) DOWN

1 Rosencrantz (14, two words)

2 Plant: see one couching restless Ariel (8) 3 E.g. Poins's short odd descen- dant (6) 4 Set moving? Ordered engineers in (9) 5 Dogberry (5)

6 Cordelia (8)

7 Timber strong round base of Globe (5) 8 Pants in theatre, W. Shakespeare's (5) 9 Henry Bolingbroke (14, words) three 10 Rambures (6)

12 Elizabethan plea for negotiation 14 workHawker about to Weed 20

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eetch makes Tearsht pile onto Falstaff? (9, two words) Lear half in shame finds equality ualitY (6)

23 Oppressed Edgar stuck in earth 25 Recapture Bard's prize (8) (8)

26 Posthumus (6) 29 Capulet (6) 31 Claudius (6)

32 Hitches with 'Shrew' on board (5) . 34 Type of weapon, small, g Othello's heart (5) etting 35 Passed 'Swan' cast in stone (5) --