Beelzebub 1150

[Voulez-vous]

16d) Lecturer recovered from dispute about a feature in quartz.

?O?EAR?OW (9)

Can almost work out the clue (Feature = ear, dispute= row, and lecturer recovered =don with first letter changed or perhaps reversed) but still cant find a word that fits!

Any help will be much appreciated!

[bibblebub]

love-arrow

is in Chambers but can't find an online reference to provide a link

[Wharton]

love-arrow

[bibblebub]

have now found one http://dictionary.ref...om/browse/love+arrows

[Voulez-vous]

Thanks bibblebub.............I have a Chambers, so should have spotted it! Any chance you could explain the wordplay, because my thoughts were clearly wrong!

[Voulez-vous]

Thanks also to Wharton :-)

[bibblebub]

lecturer = L
recovered from = OVER
dispute = ROW
about a = put A in the middle

L OVEaR ROW

[Voulez-vous]

Thank you again! :-)

[bibblebub]

my pleasure

[Wharton]

2 minutes ago I managed to fathom the wordplay - thankfully I looked before I posted - bibblebub's explanation was far better!