Weep about Stan's partner and mine (8)
I believe the answer is:
colliery
'mine' is the definition.
(a colliery is a coal mine)
'weep about stan's partner' is the wordplay.
'weep' becomes 'cry' (synonyms).
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'stan's partner' becomes 'ollie' (Ollie Hardy, comedy partner of Stan Laurel).
'cry' going around 'ollie' is 'COLLIERY'.
'and' is the link.
(Other definitions for colliery that I've seen before include "Coalmine and surrounding buildings" , "Where a coalminer goes to work" , "Pit" , "Grimethorpe?" , "Coal-mining establishment" .)