Begged to return greeting in historic town (6)
I believe the answer is:
delphi
'historic town' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both locations as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps there's an association between them I don't understand?
'begged to return greeting' is the wordplay.
'begged' becomes 'pled' (I've seen this in another clue).
'to return' says the letters should be written backwards.
'greeting' becomes 'hi' (hi is a kind of greeting).
'pled' written backwards gives 'delp'.
'delp'+'hi'='DELPHI'
'in' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for delphi that I've seen before include "Ancient Greek town with 21" , "Place of Greek oracle" , "Temple site on Mt Parnassus" , "Old Greek city" , "Home of the oracle on the slopes of Mount Parnassus" .)