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Leaving hotel, warm welcome for jealous husband (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

othello

'jealous husband' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'leaving hotel warm welcome' is the wordplay.
'leaving' suggests deleting specific letters.
'hotel' becomes 'h' (phonetic alphabet).
'warm' becomes 'hot' (synonyms).
'welcome' becomes 'hello' (both are greetings).
'hot' with 'h' removed is 'ot'.
'ot'+'hello'='OTHELLO'

'for' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for othello that I've seen before include "Jealous character" , "Shakespeare hero" , "Dramatic Moor" , "Shakespearean Moor" , "He killed his wife Desdemona" .)

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