American city hotel putting Yoko and, reportedly, John Lennon up initially (8)
I believe the answer is:
honolulu
'american city' is the definition.
'Honolulu' can be an answer for 'city' (Honolulu is an example). I am not sure about the 'american' bit.
'hotel putting yoko and reportedly john lennon up initially' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'hotel' could be 'h' (phonetic alphabet) and 'h' is located in the answer.
'yoko' could be 'ono' (musician Yoko Ono) and 'ono' is found within the answer.
The remaining letters 'lulu' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for honolulu that I've seen before include "City of Hawaii" , "Hawaiian port" , "US Pacific state capital" , "American port" , "location in Hawaii" .)