Getting the ticket a long time after for the trips (8)
I believe the answer is:
passages
'the trips' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both acts as well as being plural nouns.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I don't see?
'getting the ticket a long time after' is the wordplay.
'getting the ticket' becomes 'pass' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'a long time' becomes 'ages' (I've seen this before).
'after' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'pass'+'ages'='PASSAGES'
'for' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for passages that I've seen before include "Texts" , "journeys" , "sections of the speech" , "parts of text" , "Sections of a text" .)