She takes me out for fresh air (5)
I believe the answer is:
marie
'she' is the definition.
'me out for fresh air' is the wordplay.
'out' means to remove the last letter.
'for' says to put letters next to each other.
'fresh air' becomes 'arie' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'me' with its final letter taken away is 'm'.
'm'+'arie'='MARIE'
'takes' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for marie that I've seen before include "Queen, guillotined in 1793" , "-- Curie, scientist" , "- Lloyd, English music- hall entertainer" , "girl" , "French queen, d.1793" .)