American method for starting fire with a fixture that's a distance from home (4,5)
I believe the answer is:
away match
'a fixture that's a distance from home' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I can't tell whether this works.
'american method for starting fire' is the wordplay.
'american' becomes 'a' (common abbreviation - e.g. in organisation names).
'method' becomes 'way' (I've seen this before).
'for' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'starting fire' becomes 'match' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'a'+'way'+'match'='AWAY MATCH'
'with' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for away match that I've seen is " Soccer game played on opponents' ground".)