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Issues with hotel food (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

nosh

'food' is the definition.
(nosh is a kind of food)

'issues with hotel' is the wordplay.
'issues' becomes 'nos' ('no.' can mean number or issue, e.g. in magazines).
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'hotel' becomes 'h' (phonetic alphabet).
'nos'+'h'='NOSH'

(Other definitions for nosh that I've seen before include "cuisine" , "Eats" , "eating this?" , "Food (Yiddish)" , "Eat (sl.)" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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