Solution for 25 April cryptic crossword clue

Hood’s battle (9)

Solution – Balaclava

This clue relies on you knowing 2 of the contexts of the word balaclava – one being the hood over the face that criminals sport when robbing banks and other being the name of a famous battle, the battle of Balaclava.  In fact this was during the Crimean war (1854) and soldiers serving then wore the sort of hoods that we now call balaclavas.


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