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Drink at hotel with everyone - it's a feature of Bavarian culture (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

beerhall

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'a feature of bavarian culture' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot tell whether this works.

'drink at hotel with everyone' is the wordplay.
'drink' becomes 'beer' (beer is a kind of drink).
'at' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'hotel' becomes 'h' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'everyone' becomes 'all' (all people).
'beer'+'h'+'all'='BEERHALL'

'it's' is the link.

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(Another definition for beerhall that I've seen is " Drinking-place".)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.
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