Time to take in a strange rite by the Red Sea (7)
I believe the answer is:
eritrea
'the red sea' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I don't understand how they can define each other.
'time to take in a strange rite' is the wordplay.
'time' becomes 'era' (era is a kind of time).
'to take in' is an insertion indicator.
'a strange' indicates an anagram.
'rite' with letters rearranged gives 'itre'.
'era' going around 'itre' is 'ERITREA'.
'by' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for eritrea that I've seen before include "part of Africa" , "East African country" , "NE African state" , "State north of Ethiopia" , "Eire art found in Africa" .)