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Supporters outside hotel with financial inducements (11)

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backhanders

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'financial inducements' is the definition.
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'supporters outside hotel with' is the wordplay.
'supporters' becomes 'backers' (backer is a kind of supporter).
'outside' means one lot of letters goes inside another (some letters go outside others).
'hotel' becomes 'h' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'with' becomes 'and'.
'h'+'and'='hand'
'backers' going around 'hand' is 'BACKHANDERS'.

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(Another definition for backhanders that I've seen is " Bribes".)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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