Island in unsettled US area, or continental one? (7)
I believe the answer is:
eurasia
'continental one?' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I cannot understand how they can define each other.
'island in unsettled us area' is the wordplay.
'island' becomes 'i'.
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'unsettled' is an anagram indicator.
'us'+'area'='usarea'
'usarea' with letters rearranged gives 'eurasa'.
'i' going into 'eurasa' is 'EURASIA'.
'or' is the link.
(Other definitions for eurasia that I've seen before include "Combined continent" , "Turkey, and so on" , "Supercontinent" , "Two continents considered as one" , "Landmass formed by two continents" .)