Lift is in the middle of elevated space for The Hearing (5)
I believe the answer is:
raise
'lift' is the definition.
(I know that lift can be written as raise)
'is in the middle of elevated space for the hearing' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'is' is present in the answer.
The remaining letters 'rae' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for raise that I've seen before include "climb" , "Increased earnings in America" , "Move higher" , "Aries (anag)" , "rally" .)