Measure of acidity in beer for Phoenician character? (5)
I believe the answer is:
aleph
'character?' is the definition.
(I know that Aleph is a type of alphabetic character)
'measure of acidity in beer for phoenician' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'measure' could be 'ph' (pH is a kind of measure) and 'ph' is present in the answer.
'beer' could be 'ale' (type of beer) and 'ale' is present in the answer.
This accounts for all the letters.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for aleph that I've seen before include "First character" , "Sign of a beast? A Phoenician" , "letter in Middle East" , "Hebrew character" , "First letter of the Hebrew alphabet" .)