Ask for recipe tips from women's institute covering a really large area (6)
I believe the answer is:
africa
'really large area' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both locations as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I can't see?
'ask for recipe tips from women's institute covering a' is the wordplay.
'tips' indicates taking the first letters (tip can refer to the top end of something).
'from' says to put letters next to each other.
'women's institute' becomes 'ic' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'covering' says to put letters next to each other (on top of in down clue).
The initial letters of 'ask for recipe' is 'afr'.
'afr'+'ic'+'a'='AFRICA'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for africa that I've seen before include "Place" , "Large land mass" , "Land of Malawi and Mozambique" , "Mali's continent" , "Second largest continent" .)