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Popular hotel on river within a company (2-5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

in-house

'within a company' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'popular hotel on river' is the subsidiary indication.
'popular' becomes 'in'.
'hotel' becomes 'h' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'on' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'river' becomes 'ouse' (**).
'in'+'h'+'ouse'='inhouse'

(Other definitions for in-house that I've seen before include "Within the organisation" , "Within a company" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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