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Hotel worker with a lot of guts taking on hotel work (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

bellhop

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'hotel worker' is the definition.
'bellhop' can be an answer for 'worker' (bellhop is a kind of worker). I'm unsure of the 'hotel' bit.

'lot of guts taking on hotel work' is the wordplay.
'lot of guts' becomes 'bell' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'taking on' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'hotel' becomes 'h' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'work' becomes 'op' (abbreviation for opus).
'bell'+'h'+'op'='BELLHOP'

'with a' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for bellhop that I've seen before include "Hotel messenger" , "Hotel page" , "Baggage carrier in a hotel" , "Hotel porter (US)" , "Errand boy and luggage carrier in US hotels" .)

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