Nearby? Almost all close, I’d fancy (9)
I believe the answer is:
localised
'nearby?' is the definition.
The answer and definition are not the same part of speech. However, past participle verbs and adjectives occasionally mean the same thing.
'almost all close i'd fancy' is the wordplay.
'almost' means to remove the last letter (almost the whole word is kept).
'fancy' indicates anagramming the letters.
'all' with its final letter taken away is 'al'.
'al'+'close'+'id'='alcloseid'
'alcloseid' is an anagram of 'LOCALISED'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for localised that I've seen before include "constrained?" , "specific area" , "in a particular place" .)