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Coroner is worried about hotel's animal (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

rhinoceros

'animal' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'coroner is worried about hotel's' is the wordplay.
'worried' is an anagram indicator.
'about' indicates putting letters inside.
'hotel' becomes 'h' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'coroner'+'is'='coroneris'
'coroneris' is an anagram of 'rinoceros'.
'rinoceros' enclosing 'h' is 'RHINOCEROS'.

(Other definitions for rhinoceros that I've seen before include "Ionesco's work" , "Big game" , "Large, thick-skinned ungulate" , "Horned mammal" , "Large horned animal" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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