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Worthless gas barrel left on top of a hotel (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

blah

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'worthless gas' is the definition.
'blah' can be an answer for 'gas' (thesaurus). I'm not sure about the 'worthless' bit.

'barrel left on top of a hotel' is the wordplay.
'on top of' says to take the initial letters (I've seen 'on top' mean this).
'hotel' becomes 'h' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
The first letters of 'barrel left' is 'bl'.
'bl'+'a'+'h'='BLAH'

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(Other definitions for blah that I've seen before include "Pretentious nonsense" , "Stupid 20" , "Pretentious words" , "Bombast" , "Dull" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sunday Times.
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