Cocktail of beer (without head), gin and mixer (9)
I believe the answer is:
grenadine
'mixer' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both things that one consumes for nourishment as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe they are linked in a way I don't understand?
'cocktail of beer without head gin and' is the wordplay.
'cocktail of' indicates an anagram (a mixture of the letters).
'without head' means to remove the first letter.
'beer' with its initial letter taken away is 'eer'.
'eer'+'gin'+'and'='eerginand'
'eerginand' is an anagram of 'GRENADINE'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for grenadine that I've seen before include "Sweet cordial" , "Pomegranate cordial" , "West Indian" , "Pomegranate juice syrup" , "material" .)