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Poor area to reach, going outside hotel (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

ghetto

'poor area' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'reach going outside hotel' is the wordplay.
'reach' becomes 'getto' (getting to is a kind of reaching).
'going outside' is an insertion indicator (the word goes on the outside of inserted letters).
'hotel' becomes 'h' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'getto' going around 'h' is 'GHETTO'.

'to' is the link.

(Other definitions for ghetto that I've seen before include "A poor quarter of a city" , "Restricted quarter" , "Ethic quarter" , "Poor city area" , "Slum part of city occupied by minority group" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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