Name the girl Romeo's after (6)
I believe the answer is:
oliver
'after' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are comparative adjectives. Maybe you can see an association between them that I can't see?
'name the girl romeo's' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'name' could be 'olive' and 'olive' is located in the answer.
'romeo' could be 'r' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.) and 'r' is present in the answer.
This accounts for all the letters.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for oliver that I've seen before include "Roland companion; Bath biscuit" , "* [DICKENS WORK] Untwisted" , "First name of Dickens boy Twist" , "First name of Goldsmith, great 18th century Irish writer" , "Cromwell, for example" .)