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What’s in front of hotel spoiled good walk? (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

golf

I believe this is a double definition.

'what's in front of hotel' is the first definition.
(precedes Hotel in the NATO phonetic alphabet)

'spoiled good walk?' is the second definition.
(ref to a Mark Twain quote on golf)

(Other definitions for golf that I've seen before include "Ball game" , "Flog the game badly" , "Sport in which the Ryder Cup features" , "Comms code for G" , "Leonhard -, Swiss mathematician/physicist" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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