### Clue: Stake to run out, money invested as capital (7)
### Answer: PALERMO 
 ### Explanation: Definition: capital
 PALE(a stake, say, an upright in a fence) **plus**(to) R.O.(abbrev. for "run out", in cricket scores) **containing**(… invested) M(abbrev. for "money").**
Defn: … city of Sicily.