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Making boast about hotel feels like an anticlimax (6)

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I believe the answer is:

bathos

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'an anticlimax' is the definition.
('bathos' can be a synonym of 'anticlimax')

'making boast about hotel' is the wordplay.
'making' indicates an anagram.
'about' indicates putting letters inside.
'hotel' becomes 'h' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'boast' is an anagram of 'batos'.
'batos' enclosing 'h' is 'BATHOS'.

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(Other definitions for bathos that I've seen before include "Change from serious to trivial (in literature)" , "Unintentional slip from serious to trivial mood" , "Ludicrous descent from serious to trivial" , "descent into triviality" , "Unintentional lowering of tone" .)

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