The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 10 letter word MADAGASCAR
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result MADAGASCAR
- Island commander packing angry wound
- Island commander sports angry wound
- Fanatical Muslim leader briefly put the wind up country
- Crazed commander’s island
- Land Rover possibly carrying angry Turkish commander south
- Transport carrying crazy Turkish commanders to an African island
- Hot old oven on cliff somewhere in Africa
- What gets crazed Turkish bigshot around the island
- Island‘s foolhardy commanders on wheels
- Cross range with cliff to see island
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The straight part
We know that "large island" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case large island = madagascar.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
Sadly, We don't have an explanation for this specific crossword clue yet.