Passages in Poe so bad, old lady is skipping the second half (9)
I believe the answer is:
oesophagi
'passages' is the definition.
(oesophagus is a kind of passage)
'poe so bad old lady is skipping the second half' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'so' is found in the answer.
an anagram of 'poe' is 'oep' which is within the left over letters.
'lady' could be 'ag' and 'ag' is found within the answer.
'the second' could be 'h' (2nd letter of 'the') and 'h' is located in the answer.
A single letter 'i' remains which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
'in' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for oesophagi that I've seen before include "pipes" , "parts of canals" , "inner tubes" , "What act as channels" , "Crops" .)