Time for a sailor boy? (6)
I believe the answer is:
season
'time' is the definition.
(a season is a period of time)
'sailor boy?' is the wordplay.
'sailor' becomes 'sea' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'boy?' becomes 'son' ('son' can be a synonym of 'boy').
'sea'+'son'='SEASON'
'for a' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for season that I've seen before include "spring, perhaps" , "Add salt, pepper, spice etc" , "Salt, maybe" , "Particular time (for activity, conditions etc)" , "Add flavour with salt and pepper" .)