Hotel in awkward situation with a piano in pile of rubbish (9)
I believe the answer is:
scrapheap
'pile of rubbish' is the definition.
'scrapheap' can be an answer for 'pile' (scrapheap is a kind of pile). I'm unsure of the 'of rubbish' bit.
'hotel in awkward situation with a piano' is the wordplay.
'hotel' becomes 'h' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'in' indicates putting letters inside.
'awkward situation' becomes 'scrape' (a difficult or embarrassing situation).
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'piano' becomes 'p' (musical abbreviation).
'h' placed into 'scrape' is 'scraphe'.
'scraphe'+'a'+'p'='SCRAPHEAP'
'in' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for scrapheap that I've seen before include "Place for useless or redundant people or things" , "Pile of discarded metal" , "Junk" , "Cap phrase about mound of waste material" , "Pile of discarded items" .)