Woman admitting love for loafer? (4)
I believe the answer is:
shoe
'loafer?' is the definition.
(loafer is a kind of shoe)
'woman admitting love' is the wordplay.
'woman' becomes 'she' (**).
'admitting' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'love' becomes 'o' (In tennis, 'love' means 'zero').
'she' going around 'o' is 'SHOE'.
'for' is the link.
(Other definitions for shoe that I've seen before include "eg Trainer" , "Maybe court" , "Camera mounting" , "Pump, for example" , "mule, perhaps?" .)