Requirement of patient initially under the weather? (4)
I believe the answer is:
pill
'requirement' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I cannot understand how one could define the other.
'patient initially under the weather?' is the wordplay.
'initially' says to take the initial letters.
'under the weather?' becomes 'ill' (I've seen this before).
The initial letter of 'patient' is 'p'.
'p'+'ill'='PILL'
'of' acts as a link.
(Other definitions for pill that I've seen before include "Medication" , "may be the cure" , "Medical tablet" , "Dreadful person" , "Lozenge" .)