A lead provider to cultural association over a short period of abstinence (6)
I believe the answer is:
galena
'a lead provider' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I don't understand how one could define the other.
'cultural association over a short period of abstinence' is the wordplay.
'cultural association' becomes 'ga' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'over' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'short' means to remove the last letter.
'period of abstinence' becomes 'lent' (I've seen this before).
'lent' with its final letter removed is 'len'.
'a' put after 'len' is 'lena'.
'ga'+'lena'='GALENA'
'to' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for galena that I've seen before include "Len, GAA produces lead sulphide" , "Commonest ore of lead - Angle "A" (anag)" , "Lead sulphide mineral" , "Angela (anag) - ore producing lead" .)