Male US attorney with place in a Buddhist centre (8)
I believe the answer is:
mandalay
'a buddhist centre' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both locations as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I can't see?
'male us attorney with place' is the wordplay.
'male' becomes 'man' (man is a kind of male).
'us attorney' becomes 'DA' (abbreviation for District Attorney).
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'place' becomes 'lay' (synonyms).
'man'+'da'+'lay'='MANDALAY'
'in' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for mandalay that I've seen before include "work of Kipling" , "You'll find me on the Irrawaddy" , "C. Burma city, on Irrawaddy" , "On the road to -- (Kipling)" , "Myanmar city" .)