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snoopyfan | 10:55 Tue 24th Feb 2009 | Quizzes & Puzzles
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One last try to see if anyone can solve this clue in quiz I want to post today!!!

"but the sub-lieutenant was found in a lady's headdress" (6)

Answer will be a hat, compilers fond of anagrams but may not be the case here!!!
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cornet...it was posted earlier
10:57 Tue 24th Feb 2009
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i looked this up and it is a hat but can't see how it relates to the clue, any ideas!!???
11:05 Tue 24th Feb 2009
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Until 1871 a cornet was the most junior rank of cavalry officer - subsequently renamed sub-lieutenant.
11:14 Tue 24th Feb 2009
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Chambers - cornet :- an old form of lady's headdress, a cavalry officer, later a sub-lieutenant
11:22 Tue 24th Feb 2009
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thank you both so much, only just found these replies -must have got held up in the system somewhere!! Quiz is in the post now, many thanks for the explanations!!
21:16 Tue 24th Feb 2009

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