Doctor in a car heading for Freetown, relatively local? (7)
I believe the answer is:
african
'relatively local?' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I can't see how they can define each other.
'doctor in a car heading for freetown' is the wordplay.
'doctor' indicates an anagram.
'heading for' says to take the initial letters.
The first letter of 'freetown' is 'f'.
'in'+'a'+'car'+'f'='inacarf'
'inacarf' is an anagram of 'AFRICAN'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for african that I've seen before include "One from south of the Mediterranean" , "Zimbabwean, perhaps" , "From the second largest continent" , "One type of elephant" , "Eg, someone from Zaire" .)