Draw companion who's out of condition? (9)
I believe the answer is:
stalemate
'out of condition?' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both states of affairs as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I can't see?
'draw companion' is the wordplay.
'draw' becomes 'stale' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'companion' becomes 'mate' (I've seen this before).
'stale'+'mate'='STALEMATE'
'who's' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for stalemate that I've seen before include "situation without a winner" , "Unresolvable position" , "Possible outcome of chess game" , "Situation offering no way forward" , "Chess game deadlock" .)