Country church on common, unfinished (6)
I believe the answer is:
greece
'country church on common unfinished' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this definition defines the answer.
'country church on common unfinished' is the wordplay.
'country church' becomes 'ce' (abbreviation for Church of England. I am not sure about the 'country' bit.**).
'on' says to put letters next to each other.
'common' becomes 'green' ('green' can be a synonym of 'common').
'unfinished' means to remove the last letter.
'green' with its final letter taken off is 'gree'.
'ce' after 'gree' is 'GREECE'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for greece that I've seen before include "Country of southern Europe" , "Hellas is its ancient and modern name" , "in E" , "Zorba's land" , "Southern European country" .)