A crime committed by a country (7)
I believe the answer is:
america
'country' is the definition.
(United States of America)
'a crime committed by a' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'a' is found in the answer.
an anagram of 'crime' is 'meric' which is located in the answer.
A single letter 'a' remains which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for america that I've seen before include "Western land mass" , "World power" , "The US" , "Camera I take to the continent, oddly" , "Continent of the Western Hemisphere" .)