Weekend Quick Cryptic 18 - A Fine Romance by Johninterred

Click here to read about the origin of this series of crosswords.

A brief history of the origins of these crosswords for those who are new to them. As a blogger of the Times Quick Cryptic Crossword on Times for The Times every other Friday, I have often had comments on the blog bemoaning that The Times only provides a Quick Cryptic on Mondays to Fridays. When I finally gave up work at the end of February last year, I decided that I would try my hand at compiling crosswords. It was with some trepidation that I published, in May, the first of these Weekend Quick Cryptics to fill the gap. Well it seemed to go down well so I did another. And then my fellow crossword solver and commenter on Times for the Times, Phil Jordan, volunteered to produce some too! So now we alternate, publishing each new crossword via my Friday Quick Crossword blog. You can find an index to the complete series of crosswords here.

This time it is my turn to provide the fortnightly Weekend Quick Cryptic crossword.  It being February 14th on Sunday, there is a bit of a story in the puzzle. This week we are going to try an find a Nina. [If you  don't know what that means, you can learn about Ninas here].  There is also a down clue (not answer) that is followed by the Nina and then two across answers to complete the "romance", such as it is.

You can try and solve it interactively here or download a PDF to print here. Alternatively you can copy and print the image below. Comments and queries welcome here or with the solution post (which also gives some help on finding the Nina). I will react to them as soon as I can. 

You can find some hints for the perplexed and the solution here, and an index to the complete series of crosswords here.