Mother looks over home publications (9)

'publications' is the definition.
(magazine is a type of publication)

'mother looks over home' is the wordplay.
'mother' becomes 'ma' (Ma is another word for mother or mum).
'looks' becomes 'gazes' (gaze is a kind of look).
'over' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'home' becomes 'in' ('he's home' can mean 'he's in').
'gazes' going around 'in' is 'gazines'.
'ma'+'gazines'='MAGAZINES'