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Wonders if anemone's held back by level of acidity (9)

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I believe the answer is:

phenomena

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'wonders' is the definition.
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'anemone's held back by level of acidity' is the wordplay.
'held back' shows that the letters should be reversed in order.
'by' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'level of acidity' becomes 'ph' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'anemone' in reverse letter order is 'enomena'.
'enomena' put after 'ph' is 'PHENOMENA'.

'if' is the link.

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(Other definitions for phenomena that I've seen before include "He-man open to remarkable things or wonders" , "Remarkable events or things, wonders (9)" , "Events that may be observed" , "strange doings!" , "Happenings" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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