Manifestation of pride to precede fall: land here? (8)
I believe the answer is:
airstrip
'land here?' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'manifestation of pride to precede fall' is the wordplay.
'manifestation of pride' becomes 'airs' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'to precede' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'fall' becomes 'trip' (as in tripping over).
'airs'+'trip'='AIRSTRIP'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for airstrip that I've seen before include "essential to a Kennedy" , "Temporary runway" , "Place for taking off" , "Small flying field" , "Simple runway" .)