Outside hotel, outlaw spots The Wailers (8)
I believe the answer is:
banshees
'wailers' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this defines the answer.
'outside hotel outlaw spots' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'hotel' could be 'h' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.) and 'h' is found within the answer.
'outlaw' could be 'ban' (banning is a kind of outlawing) and 'ban' is present in the answer.
'spots' could be 'sees' (I've seen this before) and 'sees' is found in the leftover letters.
No letters remain.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
'the' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for banshees that I've seen before include "Female spirits, they warn of impending death" , "Mythical Gaelic keening women" , "Wailing women of Gaelic myth - kind of has-beens" , "Female Gaelic death-portending spirits - now kind of has-beens" , "Gaelic keening women of myth" .)
