Ex-disciple beheaded in diocese (6)
I believe the answer is:
exeter
'diocese' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are singular nouns.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?
'ex-disciple beheaded' is the wordplay.
'disciple' becomes 'Peter' (a disciple of Jesus).
'beheaded' means to remove the first letter (the head of the word is removed).
'peter' with its first letter removed is 'eter'.
'ex'+'eter'='EXETER'
'in' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for exeter that I've seen before include "Cathedral city of southwest England" , "City in 5 Down" , "Administrative centre of Devon" , "Devon university city" , "Devon's county town" .)