A measure of how far writer's in love with lover? (8)
I believe the answer is:
odometer
'a measure' is the definition.
(I have seen 'Measure of progress' mean 'odometer' so perhaps 'measure' could also mean 'odometer')
'writer's in love with lover?' is the wordplay.
'writer' becomes 'me' (the person who wrote the clues).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'love' becomes 'o' (love means zero in tennis).
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'lover?' becomes 'doter' (I have seen 'foolish lover' mean 'doter' so perhaps 'lover' could also mean 'doter').
'o'+'doter'='odoter'
'me' going inside 'odoter' is 'ODOMETER'.
'of how far' acts as a link.
I am not very happy about this link. Some or all of it may be part of another bit of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for odometer that I've seen before include "Instrument for measuring distance travelled in car" , "Car device that measures miles travelled" , "Instrument in car to record mileage" , "Car-mileage measurer" , "Travel measure" .)