Possible Clues:

• Candy
• Sugary confection
• Rooms suitable once, it's said, for a sucker?
• Fancy chair occupied by male after little time
• Delicacy to complement sour vegetable?
• Hard work securing support for backing mass confection
• Sugary delicacy, old-style
• Old item of confectionery
• Dainty little maiden keeping time in form, perhaps
• Former item of confectionery