A person from eastern Europe protecting Saint Augustine? (7)
I believe the answer is:
apostle
'augustine?' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are singular nouns.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I can't see?
'a person from eastern europe protecting saint' is the wordplay.
'person from eastern europe' becomes 'pole' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'protecting' means one lot of letters goes inside another (inserted letters are held or protected).
'saint' becomes 'st' (abbreviation).
'pole' placed around 'st' is 'postle'.
'a'+'postle'='APOSTLE'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for apostle that I've seen before include "Luke or John, say" , "James, perhaps" , "Chosen disciple" , "Religious messenger" , "Maybe Peter" .)