Refuse place in cheap spa rebuilt around river (9)
I believe the answer is:
scrapheap
'refuse place' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both locations as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe they are linked in a way I don't understand?
'cheap spa rebuilt around river' is the wordplay.
'rebuilt' is an anagram indicator.
'around' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'river' becomes 'r' (abbreviation for river).
'cheap'+'spa'='cheapspa'
'cheapspa' with letters rearranged gives 'scapheap'.
'scapheap' placed around 'r' is 'SCRAPHEAP'.
'in' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for scrapheap that I've seen before include "To which old iron is consigned, for instance" , "Place for useless or redundant people or things" , "Pile of discards" , "Junk" , "Where unwanted items end up" .)