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Excellent.

This is the reason I always inform the clue setters in the Joint Effort whether a clue is DOWN or ACROSS, because this clue couldn't work as an Across clue

a country = a Chad (country in Africa)
Written downwards and then raise the (D)aughter to the top to give 'Dacha'

It's a part &lit because 'country' is part of the wordplay to give 'Chad' and a 'Dacha' is a country house in Russia.
So 'Country' is used twice making it the &lit part of the clue.

Thanks for the chat Brendan and cheers mamya, I'm off to bed now guys, Goodnight. Les40

Night ♥

I knew mamya would have had that by the time I posted again with the explanation. Well done, a superb solver of cryptic wordplay.

Yeah goodnight Les, goodnight Mamya - that was a real challenge (much more difficult than the Jumbo)

I'll second that - Mamya has come to my aid on countless occasions.