Possible Clues:

• It's thin - it's a girl!
• Is it not thick in suet?
• He abandons the topic for a series of lies
• The girl it is that's so thin
• Sounds like noise of sneezing head off - absorbing stuff
• Powder room paper
• Paper - 'The Yorkshire Post'?
• Fine paper
• Paper required - the first edition
• Time to put out light material