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Old country hotel surrounded by suspicion (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

thrace

'old country' is the definition.
(historical south-eastern European country)

'hotel surrounded by suspicion' is the wordplay.
'hotel' becomes 'h' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'surrounded by' indicates putting letters inside.
'suspicion' becomes 'trace' (suspicion can mean a small trace).
'h' going within 'trace' is 'THRACE'.

(Other definitions for thrace that I've seen before include "old part of Europe" , "Region of SE Balkans" , "The car (anag.); historical region" , "ancient Balkan country" , "Ancient region now in Greece and Bulgaria" .)

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