Possible Clues:

• Learner, nervous, losing head like a clot
• First of fruit to end year, not good to eat or sleep on?
• Like some oatmeal
• Not smooth
• Covered in swellings
• Like some gravy and mattresses
• Not even a smoker on the outskirts of Pitlochry
• Uncomfortable, as a mattress
• Like a ruined roux
• Like an old sofa