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Characters in southeasterly hostel taken out on the Thames, speaking this kind of English (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

estuary

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'the thames speaking this kind of english' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I don't see how one could define the other.

'characters in southeasterly hostel taken out' is the wordplay.
'characters in' is an anagram indicator.
'taken out' is a deletion indicator.
'southeasterly' with 'hostel' taken away is 'uastery'.
'uastery' with letters rearranged gives 'ESTUARY'.

'on' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for estuary that I've seen before include "Bristol Channel?" , "Inlet of sea" , "should be apparent at Dartmouth?" , "River outlet" , "Wide river-mouth" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.
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