German location of bridge over parts of the Danube (7)
I believe the answer is:
spandau
'parts of the danube' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I cannot understand how one could define the other.
'german location of bridge over' is the wordplay.
'german' becomes 'd'.
'location of' becomes 'au' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'bridge' becomes 'span' ('span' can be a synonym of 'bridge').
'over' says to put letters next to each other.
'd'+'au'='dau'
'dau' put after 'span' is 'SPANDAU'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for spandau that I've seen before include "Berlin prison demolished in 1987 after the death of its last prisoner, Rudolf Hess" , "-- Ballet, pop group" , "Rudolf Hess's prison" , "British band, -- Ballet" , "Former Berlin prison" .)