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Composer in hotel entertained by humorist (5)

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I believe the answer is:

lehar

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

'hotel entertained by humorist' is the wordplay.
'hotel' becomes 'h' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'entertained by' indicates putting letters inside (I've seen this in other clues).
'humorist' becomes 'lear' (Edward Lear).
'h' placed within 'lear' is 'LEHAR'.

'in' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for lehar that I've seen before include "Franz . . . . . composed 'The Merry Widow'" , "Hungarian composer of operettas" , "Franz -----, composer of The Merry Widow" , "He scored" , "Operettist" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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