Related Clues:

• We'd maybe have one
• The wife may employ this at last
• Better half, so to speak
• Half of some couples
• Work's returning, employ a partner
• Mr or Mrs with its top in pickle
• Married partner
• Husband - wife
• Wife or husband
• Husband, to his wife
• Mr self-starter goes to river to exercise
• Ring bearer, often
• Second petty-officer to employ a mate
• Elizabethan dance
• Possibly wife and son beginning to picnic by river