Quantity of beer drunk? Time for last of soft cheese (5)
I believe the answer is:
quart
'soft cheese' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see an association between them that I can't see?
'quantity of beer drunk? time for last' is the wordplay.
'quantity of beer' becomes 'qua' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'drunk?' indicates an anagram (I've seen 'drunk' mean this).
'time' becomes 't' (abbreviation).
'last' says to take the final letters.
The last letter of 'for' is 'r'.
't'+'r'='tr'
'tr' anagrammed gives 'rt'.
'qua'+'rt'='QUART'
'of' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for quart that I've seen before include "Two imperial pints" , "Liquid measure" , "The capacity" , "A couple of pints" , "water may be measured in this" .)