Possible Clues:

• Sent her, from the sound of it, to the core of the operation
• The focal point of recent reform
• Sounds as if the nose, perhaps, is not at the side of it
• Money, again, is at the heart of
• Resort made 'er ecstatic, we hear
• Mid-point
• 'Things fall apart; the ... cannot hold'/Yeats
• 'Things fall apart; the ... cannot hold' (Yeats)
• This gets to be a bit of a bore, but never has one on edge
• Forward who meets a cross