They dry in spring time in this person's place (5)
I believe the answer is:
oasts
'they' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are plural nouns.
Perhaps you can see a link between them that I can't see?
'dry in spring time in this person's place' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'time' could be 't' and 't' is present in the answer.
'person's' could be 'ass' (ass is a kind of person) and 'ass' is located in the remaining letters.
A single letter 'o' remains which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for oasts that I've seen before include "Malt dryers" , "Houses" , "Kilns for drying hops" .)