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Character of the lower Nile (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

delta

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'character' is the definition.
(I know that delta is a type of alphabetic character)

'the lower nile' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'the' could be 't' (the is pronounced as a 't' sound in some dialects) and 't' is located in the answer.
The remaining letters 'dela' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

'of' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for delta that I've seen before include "Triangular river system" , "Fourth letter of the ancient Greek alphabet: river feature" , "Dealt (anag.)" , "first used by Daedalus" , "See Greek" .)

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