Pain relief for north American with broken leg detained in the Far East (9)
I believe the answer is:
analgesia
'pain relief' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'north american with broken leg detained in the far east' is the wordplay.
'north american' becomes 'na'.
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'broken' indicates anagramming the letters.
'detained in' indicates putting letters inside.
'the far east' becomes 'asia' (the Far East is part of Asia).
'leg' with letters rearranged gives 'lge'.
'na'+'lge'='nalge'
'nalge' inserted into 'asia' is 'ANALGESIA'.
'for' is the link.
(Other definitions for analgesia that I've seen before include "Painlessness" , "As a linage (anag) - insensibility to pain" , "painless" , "result of medication?" , "Inability to feel pain" .)