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Father with poles tempting singers (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

sirens

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'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'

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(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" .)

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