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Hotel in reach in poor quarter (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

ghetto

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

'hotel in reach' is the wordplay.
'hotel' becomes 'h' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'reach' becomes 'getto' (getting to is a kind of reaching**).
'h' going within 'getto' is 'GHETTO'.

'in' is the link.

(Other definitions for ghetto that I've seen before include "City quarter to which Jewish people were confined" , "Area for those deprived" , "Slum area occupied by particular group" , "A poor quarter of a city" , "Run-down area" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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