Times Saturday

[doctordolittle]

Spanish city a little bit lacking in Latin love? (7) g-a-a-a must surely be Granada but why?

[Pigletion]

Tenuous

gra(m) + nada (Spanish (Latin, as in Latin America) for nothing, as in love in tennis?)

That's all I can see....

[dannyk13]

Parse looks good.

[dannyk13]

Gramma - a mm(a little bit.

[Pigletion]

Thanks Danny, that bit makes more sense now...

Explanation for those (like me!) not so hot on their Latin weights

Latin
Pronunciation (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈɡram.ma/
Noun: gramma n ‎(genitive grammatis); third declension

gramme/gram (unit of mass)

[Captain2]

Sorry, why are we looking at Latin weights, if 'Latin love' is taken out to cover the 'nada' part of the answer?

[dannyk13]

Nada is Spanish Capt not Latin

[Pigletion]

Gra = I was therefore thinking a little bit lacking in Latin is gr(a mm)a
Nada = nothing (in Spanish and adopted as a way of saying nothing in other languages)

Otherwise I thought my Latin/Spanish link was a bit tenuous...

[dannyk13]

I think you are right Pigleton.

[scrunge999]

I think the 'gra' is 'grain' (a little bit) lacking 'in'. 'Nada' is 'nothing' in Latin America.

[Pigletion]

I did think grain, but then talked myself out of it. However, a grain of sand is definitely a little bit!

[dannyk13]

Both the parses work IMO

[Captain2]

That makes more sense scrunge, thank you and to Danny and Pigleton (Just trying to understand some of these darned compilers)

[Pigletion]

Well, at least we are sure the answer is Granada

[dannyk13]

I would probably agree more with Scrunge if the clued had read Latino instead of Latin.

[donny48]

No criticism and a genuine question. Can you then use a little bit to mean grain and then use it to in conjunction with lacking to take a little bit off a word.

[dannyk13]

Often done by setters Donny.

[Pigletion]

Thank you for the discussion/insight - I would have put Granada, as I could vaguely see how it parsed, but it would have annoyed me not knowing the correct parsing(s).

[Spoffy]

Definitely GRAIN ('a little bit') without ('lacking') IN + NADA ('Latin' ie of Spanish origin 'love' ie zero)