Thatcher's successor

The answer

MAJOR

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the MAJOR answer page.

Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 1995. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

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• Military rank - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
• Student's declaration - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
• Student's focus - used 6 times, most recently in 2019

Related clues

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• Grant's successor - HAYES, used 35 times
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• Boutros-Ghali's successor - ANNAN, used 24 times
• Hubert's successor - SPIRO, used 24 times

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