"clear a place" is a correct phrase and can be used in written English.
Example: "Please clear a place at the table for our guests to sit."
Hackney is, it quickly becomes clear, a place of disappearances.
I know a grassy hillside Above a river clear A place of peace and pleasure A memory very dear — There were several verses, and as I read I began to understand that she was talking about the same river flats that I had thought belonged to me.
… Infielder Justin Sellers was designated for assignment to clear a place on the 40-man roster for Arruebarrena.
To clear a place for Baker on the 40-man roster, Brandon League was moved from the 15-day DL to the 60-day DL.
And, more likely than not, they will dutifully clear a place in their hearts for "Rogue One," a swiftly paced, rough-and-ready entertainment that, in anticipating the canonical events of "A New Hope," manages the tricky feat of seeming at once casually diverting and hugely consequential.
Ms. Close is the real mesmerizer, and she can probably start clearing a place on her mantle right now for the Tony she's bound to win next June.
Gainsborough, who had scant interest in theory and preferred actors to artists for company, cleared a place for himself between these reformist poles, at first by splicing them together.
It was a painfully slow stint, and aside from watching children stick their hands into the chocolate fountain and occasionally clearing a place setting, I didn't have much to do.
London, it's clear, is a place which the prez will be lucky to survive.
It's not always clear what a place or object is in the game.
