Trip around heartless place that's remote (8)
I believe the answer is:
outlying
'remote' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'trip around heartless place' is the wordplay.
'trip' becomes 'outing' (I've seen this before**).
'around' indicates putting letters inside.
'heartless' means to remove the middle letters.
'place' becomes 'lay' (laying is a kind of placing).
'lay' with its centre taken out is 'ly'.
'outing' placed around 'ly' is 'OUTLYING'.
'that's' acts as a link.
(Other definitions for outlying that I've seen before include "remote area" , "On the exterior" , "Remote from the centre" , "Away from the middle" .)