Wanting weapons to protect hotel safe (8)
I believe the answer is:
unharmed
'safe' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'wanting weapons to protect hotel' is the wordplay.
'wanting weapons' becomes 'unarmed' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'to protect' indicates putting letters inside (inserted letters are held or protected).
'hotel' becomes 'h' (phonetic alphabet).
'unarmed' placed around 'h' is 'UNHARMED'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for unharmed that I've seen before include "Not injured or damaged" , "not wounded" .)