British honour given to cleaners of these rooms? (8)
I believe the answer is:
chambers
'these rooms?' is the definition.
(chamber is a kind of room)
'british honour given to cleaners' is the wordplay.
'british honour' becomes 'mbe' (Member of the British Empire award. I am not sure about the 'british' bit.).
'given to' is an insertion indicator.
'cleaners' becomes 'chars' (char or charwoman is a term for cleaner).
'mbe' inserted into 'chars' is 'CHAMBERS'.
'of' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for chambers that I've seen before include "Judge's room - dictionary" , "Judge's room for hearing cases in private" , "barristers' rooms" , "Rooms for the judge and dictionary" , "houses" .)