Ancient citizens in bar finish off these when getting round (7)
I believe the answer is:
thebans
'ancient citizens' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I can't judge whether it can be defined by this definition.
'bar finish off these when getting round' is the wordplay.
'finish off' means to remove the last letter.
'these when' becomes 'thens' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'getting round' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'bar' with its last letter taken off is 'ba'.
'ba' going within 'thens' is 'THEBANS'.
'in' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for thebans that I've seen before include "Inhabitants of ancient Greece" , "City people" , "Greeks" .)