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Hotel meal with no starter giving you the hump (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

hunch

'the hump' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'hotel meal with no starter' is the wordplay.
'hotel' becomes 'h' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'meal' becomes 'lunch' (lunch is a kind of meal).
'with no starter' means to remove the first letter.
'lunch' with its initial letter removed is 'unch'.
'h'+'unch'='HUNCH'

'giving you' is the link.

(Other definitions for hunch that I've seen before include "Intuitive guess" , "Guess -- sit with bad posture" , "Idea based on intuition" , "Lump - intuitive feeling" , "Premonition; hump" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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