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Feline caught with hotel fish (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

catch

'fish' is the definition.
(I know that fish is a more specific form of the action catch)

'feline caught with hotel' is the wordplay.
'feline' becomes 'cat' (cat is a kind of feline).
'caught' becomes 'c' (cricket abbreviation).
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'hotel' becomes 'h' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'cat'+'c'+'h'='CATCH'

(Other definitions for catch that I've seen before include "Getting round" , "problem being concealed" , "Good match" , "fellow hooked for matrimony?" , "Understand" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sun.
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