Religious position provided by group on city outskirts (6)
I believe the answer is:
abbacy
'religious position' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both locations as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe they are linked in a way I don't understand?
'group on city outskirts' is the wordplay.
'group' becomes 'ABBA' (pop group).
'on' means one lot of letters go next to another (in a down clue, letters appear on others).
'outskirts' means to remove the middle letters (I've seen 'outskirts of' mean this).
'city' with its middle removed is 'cy'.
'abba'+'cy'='ABBACY'
'provided by' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for abbacy that I've seen before include "Office of senior monk" , "Office of an abbot" , "Office of a chief monk" , "Office of the head of a monastery" , "Jurisdiction of a Father Superior" .)