Is hotel below average for district? (6)
I believe the answer is:
parish
'district?' is the definition.
(parish is a kind of district)
'is hotel below average' is the wordplay.
'hotel' becomes 'h' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'below' says to put letters next to each other (in a down clue, some letters go below others).
'average' becomes 'par' (average score in golf).
'is'+'h'='ish'
'ish' put after 'par' is 'PARISH'.
'for' acts as a link.
(Other definitions for parish that I've seen before include "quarter" , "Kind of 2 down - has rip (anag)" , "Local government area" , "Local church community" , "District within county" .)