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Cleans up? Hangs around collecting nothing (7)

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I believe the answer is:

hoovers

'cleans up?' is the definition.
(to hoover is to use a vacuum cleaner)

'hangs around collecting nothing' is the wordplay.
'hangs around' becomes 'hovers' (hover can mean to linger or hang around).
'collecting' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'nothing' becomes 'O' (O resembles 0).
'hovers' enclosing 'o' is 'HOOVERS'.

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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