Detached building for visiting doctors by a lake (8)
I believe the answer is:
clinical
'detached' is the definition.
(synonyms)
'building for visiting doctors by a lake' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'building' could be 'clinic' (clinic is a kind of building) and 'clinic' is located in the answer.
'a' is present in the answer.
'lake' could be 'l' (geographical abbreviation) and 'l' is present in the answer.
This accounts for all the letters.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for clinical that I've seen before include "Coldly efficient" , "Unemotional, cool and detached - in hospital ?" , "Based on observed signs or symptoms" , "description of a form of medicine" , "Coldly detached" .)