The Week 1284 - Last 2 Clues

[vygotsky]

8ac WW11 Field Marshall, a victor in Spring (6) ?a???l

2d Shell protects this oil-producing plant (6) ???n?t

[bobbinwales]

Marshall or marshal?
peanut?

[Mamyalynne]

8a Wavell

[vygotsky]

Thanks! It is spelt: MARSHAL

[Mamyalynne]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald_Wavell,_1st_Earl_Wavell

[bobbinwales]

good one -A v in well

[bobbinwales]

Its okay. I'm a fire marshal at work but everyone has marshall on there jacket's which i know is wrong because someone called Marshall keeps reminding me

[vygotsky]

Thanks a lot to Mamyalynne & Bobbinwales!!

2d is very difficult for me to parse...?

[Mamyalynne]

Peanuts grow in a shell and they yield oil.

[bobbinwales]

It's a nut with a shell? It produces peanut oil? I think the clue is just misdirection by using the words Shell & Oil as in a shell oil company