| DOORMAN | A person, often uniformed, who monitors the entrance to a hotel or restaurant (7) |
| CONCIERGE | From Latin for "fellow servant", a French word used to refer to a hotel or apartment building's residential bellhop, caretaker, doorkeeper, hall porter, janitor or warden (9) |
| PORTER | Man on duty at the entrance to a hotel |
| CHECKSIN | Goes to a hotel, or stops at home (6,2) |
| COMPLEX | An anxiety or unconscious fear in a person, often due to past experience (7) |
| TAPROOM | A bar, as in a hotel or pub (7) |
| ONESTAR | Low-rated, as a hotel or a movie |
| TAXICAB | It might take you from an airport to a hotel |
| CHECKIN | Register one's arrival at a hotel or airport |
| BOULDER | Obstruction at the entrance to a cave, maybe |
| SOMMELIER | Waiter who manages wine services in a hotel or restaurant; French, 'butler' (9) |
| CHEF | The chief cook in a hotel or restaurant (4) |
| FIVESTAR | Of excellent quality, as a hotel or restaurant (4-4) |
| TRONC | Word, from French for "collecting box" or "poor box", for a pool of tips to be divided out among catering, hotel or restaurant staff; or, the system by which this is done (5) |
| INN | Old fashioned name for a hotel or restaurant |
| EFFIGY | A roughly made model of a person often used in a protest or ceremony (6) |
| DOOR | A swinging or sliding barrier that will close the entrance to a room or building or vehicle (4) |
| BIDET | "Am I the asshole for forcing my guests to move to a hotel after they refused to use the ___?" (viral Reddit post) |
| SIGNIN | To cause to sign a register, as at a hotel or club (4,2) |
| ATE | ___ out : had a meal in a hotel or a restaurant ? (3) |
