House losers admire at heart? (4)
I believe the answer is:
semi
'house' is the definition.
(semi-detached house)
'losers admire at heart?' is the wordplay.
'losers' becomes 'se' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'at heart?' says to take the centre (I've seen 'at heart' mean this).
The central letters of 'admire' are 'mi'.
'se'+'mi'='SEMI'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for semi that I've seen before include "place" , "House joined to another" , "Not quite the biggest tie" , "half would do!" , "House linked to another" .)