Complain about hospital following drill (5)
I believe the answer is:
bitch
'complain' is the definition.
(bitching is a kind of complaining)
'about hospital following drill' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'about' could be 'c' (abbreviation for 'circa') and 'c' is located in the answer.
'hospital' could be 'h' (abbreviation for hospital) and 'h' is located in the answer.
The remaining letters 'bit' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for bitch that I've seen before include "Malicious woman" , "Female dog" , "Retriever likely to drop" , "Female animal" , "grouse" .)