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Seedy dive's opening next to a new hotel, unfortunately (4-2-4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

down-at-heel

'seedy' is the definition.
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'dive's opening next to a new hotel unfortunately' is the wordplay.
'opening' indicates taking the first letters.
'next to' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'unfortunately' indicates an anagram.
The first letter of 'dives' is 'd'.
'a'+'new'+'hotel'='anewhotel'
'anewhotel' with letters rearranged gives 'ownatheel'.
'd'+'ownatheel'='DOWN-AT-HEEL'

(Other definitions for down-at-heel that I've seen before include "Looking shabby" , "In poor circumstances" , "Having a poor, shabby appearance" , "Generally shabby" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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