A beastly place to eat in France! (6)
I believe the answer is:
manger
'france' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I don't understand how they can define each other.
'a beastly place to eat' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'a' could be 'an' and 'an' is located in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
'in' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for manger that I've seen before include "Cattle-trough" , "Food trough for animals" , "Trough for cattle-feed" , "Long trough" , "Trough for animal feed" .)