Way to get over cold detailed by dope causing disease? (10)
I believe the answer is:
pathogenic
'causing disease?' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'way to get over cold detailed' is the wordplay.
'way' becomes 'pathogen' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'to get over' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'cold' becomes 'icy' (similar in meaning).
'detailed' means to remove the last letter (the tail of the word is removed).
'icy' with its last letter taken off is 'ic'.
'pathogen'+'ic'='PATHOGENIC'
'by dope' acts as a link.
I am not very happy about this link. Some or all of it may be part of another bit of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for pathogenic that I've seen is " Causing disease".)