Possible Clues:

• Picked up
• Prepared for company
• Month over, list filed, then wiped
• Expurgated, with 'up'
• How the century was inclined to have been a washout
• Spick-and-span, now
• Scoured
• Got awash, as one was inclined to get after a century
• Took everything from, with 'out'
• Washed out, and thin during December up there