What’s maybe experienced by impatient practical joker in military retreat (4,5)
I believe the answer is:
long march
'retreat' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are singular nouns.
Perhaps there's a link between them I don't understand?
I can't explain the rest of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for long march that I've seen is " Famous journey of Chinese communists".)
I've seen this clue in The Times.
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