Fair to admit university mate manufactured overseas place (9)
I believe the answer is:
guatemala
'overseas place' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both locations as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I don't see?
'fair to admit university mate manufactured' is the wordplay.
'fair' becomes 'gala' (I've seen this before).
'to admit' is an insertion indicator.
'university' becomes 'U' (abbreviation as in UMass).
'manufactured' is an anagram indicator.
'u'+'mate'='umate'
'umate' with letters rearranged gives 'uatem'.
'gala' enclosing 'uatem' is 'GUATEMALA'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for guatemala that I've seen before include "Republic in Central America" , "place overseas" , "Central American country" , "Latin American place" , "Spanish-speaking country in Central America" .)