Emerges outside leading hotel with a new playwright (12)
I believe the answer is:
aristophanes
'playwright' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'emerges outside leading hotel with a new' is the wordplay.
'emerges' becomes 'arises' (I've seen this in another clue).
'outside' is an insertion indicator (some letters go outside others).
'leading hotel with' becomes 'toph' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'new' becomes 'n' (common abbreviation eg NT for New Testament).
'toph'+'a'+'n'='tophan'
'arises' placed around 'tophan' is 'ARISTOPHANES'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for aristophanes that I've seen before include "Playwright" , "Greek comic dramatist - writer of Lysistrata, d. about 385 BC" , "Ancient Greek dramatist" , "Playmaker" , "great comic dramatist" .)
