Illustrious former student left to join navy base (5)

Independent Cryptic #11866 | 10 Across | 2024-10-21
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

A charade of N for ‘navy’, OB for Old Boy or ‘former student’, L and the mathematical base E. N for ‘Navy’ is apparently in some dictionaries as an independent abbreviation for ‘Navy’, so setters don’t have to rely on RN for Royal Navy.

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