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Hurry from hotel in guise of X (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

hasten

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'hurry' is the definition.
(I know that hurry can be written as hasten)

'hotel in guise of x' is the wordplay.
'hotel in guise of' becomes 'has' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'x' becomes 'ten' (X is the Roman numeral for ten).
'has'+'ten'='HASTEN'

'from' is the link.

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(Other definitions for hasten that I've seen before include "dash" , "Make faster" , "race? - with 26a" , "Travel with expedition" , "Hurry along" .)

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