Sleep after swallowing tablet and lots of medicine? (5)
I believe the answer is:
doses
'sleep after swallowing' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this definition defines the answer.
'tablet and lots of medicine?' is the wordplay.
'tablet' becomes 'es' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'and' means one lot of letters go next to another (I've seen this in other clues).
'lots of' means to remove the last letter (the majority of the word).
'medicine?' becomes 'dose' (dose is a kind of medicine).
'dose' with its final letter taken off is 'dos'.
'es' put after 'dos' is 'DOSES'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for doses that I've seen before include "Measured portions of medicine" , "Gives medicine to" , "draughts" , "Specific quantities" , "Administers medicine to (someone)" .)