Oddball mated with a car seat in barren patch (7,6)
I believe the answer is:
atacama desert
'barren patch' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both locations as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see a link between them that I don't see?
'oddball mated with a car seat' is the wordplay.
'oddball' is an anagram indicator (I've seen this in other clues).
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'mated'+'a'+'car'+'seat'='matedacarseat'
'matedacarseat' is an anagram of 'ATACAMA DESERT'.
'in' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for atacama desert that I've seen before include "Barren region of Chile" , "Arid region in Chile" , "S. American wilderness" , "Desolate area of Chile" , "barren landscape" .)