Country noble with an alteration (7)
I believe the answer is:
lebanon
'country' is the definition.
(I know that Lebanon is a country)
'noble with an alteration' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'an' could be 'a' and 'a' is present in the answer.
an anagram of 'noble' is 'lebno' which is located in the left over letters.
A single letter 'n' remains which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for lebanon that I've seen before include "Country associated with cedar trees" , "Country with cedars" , "Neighbour of Israel" , "Eastern Mediterranean country" , "E. Mediterranean nation" .)