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Books into endless misery at Fawlty Towers? (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

hotel

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'fawlty towers?' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'books into endless misery' is the wordplay.
'books' becomes 'ot' (Old Testament).
'into' is an insertion indicator.
'endless misery' becomes 'hel' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'ot' going within 'hel' is 'HOTEL'.

'at' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for hotel that I've seen before include "Fawlty Towers, say" , "guest house for a song before 8 [STATE] ..." , "Where one may stay" , "the last before coming to India" , "Hostelry" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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