She leaves hotel — a rising tide brings fish (3,4)
I believe the answer is:
sea wolf
'fish' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both animals as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?
'she leaves hotel a rising tide' is the wordplay.
'leaves' indicates named letters should be taken away.
'hotel' becomes 'h' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'rising tide' becomes 'wolf' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'she' with 'h' removed is 'se'.
'se'+'a'+'wolf'='SEA-WOLF'
'brings' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for sea wolf that I've seen is " 'Black-and-white toothed whale (3,4)'".)