Guiding American group around empty house (8)
I believe the answer is:
ushering
'guiding' is the definition.
(ushering is a kind of guiding)
'american group around empty house' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'american' could be 'us' (United States) and 'us' is located in the answer.
'group' could be 'ring' (a ring is a criminal organisation) and 'ring' is found in the answer.
'empty' could be 'e' (abbreviation e.g. on guages) and 'e' is found in the answer.
'house' could be 'h' and 'h' is found within the answer.
This accounts for all the letters.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for ushering that I've seen before include "working as escorts" , "putting one in one's place" , "Showing to a seat" , "Taking people to their seats" , "Showing people to their seats" .)