Speccie 2460

[hypotheses]

39A: Temple mirrored Australian tree (4) TA?A. Chambers doesn’t offer anything I can see.

[Nical]

Tawa- A Wat, temple, reversed.It's a tree.

[hypotheses]

Thanks for that - not sure the clue is entirely fair. Maybe “A temple mirrored Australian tree?”

[Emmceeyell]

I think it's rather a temple reversed = TAW + A for Australian = tree

[hypotheses]

Emmceeyell - you’re right of course. I had thought Australian tree was a definition of Tawa. It’s not. Tawa is NZ which alters the sense of the whole clue.