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Leaves hotel for European's speech on holiday (6,3)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

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'leaves hotel' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both related to thinking as well as being verbs in their -s form.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I don't see?

'european's speech on holiday' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'speech' could be 'heck' (heck is a kind of speech) and 'heck' is found within the answer.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).

'for' acts as a link.

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I've seen this clue in the Irish Times (Crosaire) and the Irish Times.
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