Eager to tour a European republic (7)
I believe the answer is:
hungary
'eager' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I don't understand how one could define the other.
'tour a european republic' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'a' is present in the answer.
'european' could be 'hun' (Hun is an example) and 'hun' is found in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
'to' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for hungary that I've seen before include "part of Europe" , "Country bordered by Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia and Austria" , "It's capital is Budapest" , "East European country" , "Country where Magyar is spoken" .)