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Noisily chews something hot in temporary quarters (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

champs

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'noisily chews' is the definition.
'champs' can be an answer for 'chews' (champing is a kind of chewing). I am not sure about the 'noisily' bit.

'something hot in temporary quarters' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'hot' could be 'h' (common abbreviation eg on taps) and 'h' is found within the answer.
'quarters' could be 'camp' (camp is a kind of quarters) and 'camp' is found in the remaining letters.
A single letter 's' remains which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for champs that I've seen before include "Title holders" , "frets impatiently" , "Munches noisily like horse at bit" , "Munches noisily like abbreviated winners" , "Heaven in Paris?" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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