Deliberately tried to leave place where you'll find the pupil (7)
I believe the answer is:
eyeball
'the pupil' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'deliberately tried to leave place' is the wordplay.
'to leave' indicates named letters should be taken away.
'place' indicates anagramming the letters (I've seen 'placed' mean this (placing the letters)).
'deliberately' with 'tried' removed is 'lbeaely'.
'lbeaely' anagrammed gives 'EYEBALL'.
'where you'll find' is the link.
I am not very happy about this link. Some or all of it may belong to another bit of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for eyeball that I've seen before include "One of two in confrontation" , "pupil found here" , "Look confrontationally" , "Optical sphere within lids" , "Watch" .)