People like Sir Walter Raleigh -- knight in ridiculously sizeable hat (12)
I believe the answer is:
elizabethans
'people like sir walter raleigh' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this definition defines the answer.
'knight in ridiculously sizeable hat' is the wordplay.
'knight' becomes 'n' (chess abbreviation).
'in' indicates putting letters inside.
'ridiculously' is an anagram indicator (I've seen this in other clues).
'sizeable'+'hat'='sizeablehat'
'sizeablehat' with letters rearranged gives 'elizabethas'.
'n' going into 'elizabethas' is 'ELIZABETHANS'.
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I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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