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[Catcarer]

Last clue but I'm stuck.............

Place where you might be, seek or pass through (8) _ L _ A _ I _ Y

- could be I've got a letter wrong.

Thanks for help!

[boxtops]

CLARIFY

[factor-fiction]

I was going to suggest CLARITY but boxtops is usually right

[boxtops]

thank you factor! :-) - if the verb is "seek or pass through", clarify seems right to me. I could be wrong!

[FoxLee2]

But the answer requires 8 letters

[Calibax]

Locality?
If your L is wrong

[Catcarer]

Can't be right - it's 8 letters long not 7.
The L answers the clue - Ball game in a way, with a puddle (4) (POOL)
Any other idea?

[fredkins]

could it not be polo putting an o where your L is.

[factor-fiction]

Sorry, it's not clarify or clarity
(Boxtops, it's academic now, but I thought Clarity rather than clarify because you 'seek clarity')
I wonder if there is a letter wrong.
clearway?

[Catcarer]

CLEARWAY my first thought, but a clue goes across it =

Taken for aches and pains, colds and flue (7) _ S _ I _ _ _ - which I put as ASPIRIN so that the second I of that word puts in the I of the mystery word. Any alternative for ASPIRIN?

[vallaw]

Any chance the a is wrong? could be classify?

[Catcarer]

Sorry - no. The whole thing is driving me mad now! :O(
Take it that the Y is wrong, what have we got then?