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Wouldn’t the largest continent have fitted in 22d?
. With a different clue?

Bowergirl, true, good spot.

Was doubtful about 22d because it wasn't in Chambers although from wordplay and letters, it couldn't be anything else.
6d became obvious from definition and letters but parsing caused me to go cross-eyed!

I can't fully parse 6d. I can see the parsing of the first four and the last three letters, but can't parse the four in the middle. What do they have to do with 'non-clerical'??

After struggling with the anagram at 23a for ages, I eventually put it into anagram solver, and found that it was a word I'd never heard of before!

A very enjoyable solve I thought, with 25a being my COD.

jules, 6 is a reversed clue, parses as reversal of [3,4,2,2]. The 4 is a word for "non-clerical".

Thanks Geeker, I knew it was all reversed, but I didn't understand those four letters as it was a word I'd never heard of - or rather I didn't even know it was a word, so I thought I must be missing something. I've now googled it, and I get it now.

So that's two brand new words for me (23a plus this one) from this week's Everyman!