Father with poles tempting singers (6)
I believe the answer is:
sirens
'tempting singers' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both people as well as being plural nouns.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I can't see?
'father with poles' is the wordplay.
'father' becomes 'sire' (synonyms).
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'poles' becomes 'NS' (north and south poles).
'sire'+'ns'='SIRENS'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for sirens that I've seen before include "Loud warning signals" , "Alarm whistles or temptresses of sailors" , "Devices that warn with a loud wailing noise" , "Sea nymphs" , "Warning devices with loud wailing noise" .)