No inclination from military to make allowance for sovereign? (5,4)

Independent Cryptic #11566 | 9 Across | 2023-11-06
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

DD/CD. List here is used in the sense of tilt, so non-military tilt might be a civil list. The civil list was a previous mechanism for giving money to the monarchy – it has since been replaced by the sovereign grant.

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