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Cleaning piano, languishing around (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

mopping

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'cleaning' is the definition.
(I know that mopping is a type of scouring)

'piano languishing around' is the wordplay.
'piano' becomes 'p' (musical abbreviation).
'languishing' becomes 'moping' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'around' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'p' going within 'moping' is 'MOPPING'.

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(Another definition for mopping that I've seen is " Cleaning up".)

I've seen this clue in The Daily Express.
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