Cure for love-sickness? (8)
I believe the answer is:
antidote
'cure' is the definition.
(I know that antidote is a type of cure)
'love-sickness?' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'love' could be 'dote' (I've seen this in other clues) and 'dote' is found in the answer.
The remaining letters 'anti' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
'for' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for antidote that I've seen before include "Donate it to anti-poison agent" , "Counteracting remedy" , "Counterpoison" , "Medicine countering a poison" , "Counteractive medicine" .)