Times welcoming back visitors in stable, extended partnership? (6)
I believe the answer is:
bigamy
'stable extended partnership?' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I cannot see how they can define each other.
'times welcoming back visitors' is the wordplay.
'times' becomes 'by' (both can mean 'multiplied by').
'welcoming' means one lot of letters goes inside another (in sense of 'inviting in').
'back' says the letters should be written backwards.
'visitors' becomes 'magi' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'magi' written backwards gives 'igam'.
'by' placed around 'igam' is 'BIGAMY'.
'in' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for bigamy that I've seen before include "Matrimonial crime" , "Illegal marriage to more than one person" , "crime, perhaps" , "Marrying one person while married to another" , "Marital crime" .)