The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 plus 5 letter word OCEAN LINER
I've seen this crossword clue in The Guardian
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More clues leading to the result OCEAN LINER
- Perhaps Indian makeup for Queen Mary?
- It has cabins; it’s possibly nicer alone
- Reliance on unstable ship
- Queen Elizabeth‘s reliance on cooks?
- Old at sea recline around an ___ ___
- Developed reliance on ship
- Ship wrecked in lone race
- Reliance on restoring QE II, perhaps
- No. 1 cleaner, on-tour commercial ship
- Placing reliance on a mode of transport
Buddy explains!
The straight part
We know that "Queen Elizabeth" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case queen elizabeth = ocean liner.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
Sadly, We don't have an explanation for this specific crossword clue yet.