Little love being returned in bed, daughter's instead accepted alternative liaison? (5,4)
I believe the answer is:
blind date
'little love' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I don't see?
'being returned in bed daughter's instead accepted alternative liaison?' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'being' could be 'b' (B is an example) and 'b' is found in the answer.
'in' is found in the answer.
'accepted' could be 'a' (financial abbreviation) and 'a' is found in the answer.
'daughter' could be 'd' and 'd' is found in the answer.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for blind date that I've seen before include "Bend it, lad (anag)" , "Social appointment between people who have not met before" , "Romantic meeting between strangers?" , "Social appointment with stranger" , "New pairing" .)