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Set among woods, hotel given one rating or another (5-4)

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I believe the answer is:

three-star

'one rating or another' is the definition.
I know nothing about this answer so I cannot tell whether it can be defined by this definition.

'set among woods hotel given' is the wordplay.
'set' becomes 'tar' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'among' means one lot of letters goes inside another (I've seen this in other clues).
'woods' becomes 'trees' (woods are made up of trees).
'hotel' becomes 'h' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'given' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'trees' going around 'h' is 'threes'.
'tar' after 'threes' is 'THREE-STAR'.

(Another definition for three-star that I've seen is " Mid-range".)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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