Spooner wanders around hospital identifying those likely to fail (2-6)
I believe the answer is:
no-hopers
'those likely to fail' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot judge whether it can be defined by this definition.
'spooner wanders around hospital' is the wordplay.
'wanders' is an anagram indicator.
'around' indicates putting letters inside.
'hospital' becomes 'H' (abbreviation for hospital on maps).
'spooner' with letters rearranged gives 'noopers'.
'noopers' going around 'h' is 'NO-HOPERS'.
'identifying' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for no-hopers that I've seen is " People expected to fail".)