Natural disaster that may be rife (8)
I believe the answer is:
wildfire
'natural disaster that may be rife' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I cannot understand how one could define the other.
'natural disaster that may be rife' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'natural' could be 'wild' (synonyms) and 'wild' is found within the answer.
an anagram of 'rife' is 'fire' which is within the answer.
No letters remain.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for wildfire that I've seen before include "Sweeping destructive conflagration" , "moves fast over forest" , "Combustible material - how news may spread?" , "Conflagration that spreads quickly" , "that's quickly spreading" .)