Favoured king saved by Lewis heroine (5)
I believe the answer is:
lucky
'favoured' is the definition.
The answer and definition are different parts of speech. However, past participle verbs and adjectives occasionally define each other.
'king saved by lewis heroine' is the wordplay.
'king' becomes 'K' (chess abbreviation).
'saved by' means one lot of letters goes inside another (I've seen this in other clues).
'lewis heroine' becomes 'Lucy' (character in CS Lewis' Narnia books).
'k' going within 'lucy' is 'LUCKY'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for lucky that I've seen before include "Serendipitous" , "Game where prizes are picked from a tub" , "Blessed with good fortune" , "'It is better to be born . . . . . than rich'" , "having the rub of the green?" .)