The Iliad complete? One's taken out most intense part! (9)
I believe the answer is:
epicentre
'most intense part' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both locations as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I don't see?
'the iliad complete? one's taken' is the wordplay.
'the iliad' becomes 'epic' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'complete?' becomes 'entire' ('entire' can be a synonym of 'complete').
'one' becomes 'i' (Roman numeral).
'taken' is a deletion indicator.
'entire' with 'i' removed is 'entre'.
'epic'+'entre'='EPICENTRE'
'out' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for epicentre that I've seen before include "focal point" , "Area most affected" , "Quaking heart" , "most shocking point" , "Disaster area" .)