### Clue: Hotel rings awfully short cleaner (6)
### Answer: HOOVER 
 ### Explanation: Definition: cleaner
 H(letter represented by "hotel" in the phonetic alphabet) + OO(ring-shaped letters) + "very"(awfully, as in "awfully keen") **minus its last letter**(short).
Defn: …, specifically, a vacuum cleaner, after the company famous for manufacturing such.