Possible Clues:

• Like some paths or rugs
• Conquered
• Not be an eleven that's not one, by the sound of it (6)
• Having been caught at, is punished
• Defeated or hit repeatedly
• Licked
• Not, by the sound of it, one way to make an X of it
• A follower was taken down and thrashed
• Well worn
• Be at Number 10? Not if he's lost the election