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Attending hotel, cheat gets beating (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

athrob

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

'attending hotel cheat' is the wordplay.
'attending' becomes 'at' (e.g. at school means attending school).
'hotel' becomes 'h' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'cheat' becomes 'rob' (robbing is a kind of cheating).
'at'+'h'+'rob'='ATHROB'

'gets' is the link.

(Other definitions for athrob that I've seen before include "Pulsating" , "all of a twitter" , "Pulsing" , "beating" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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