Related Clues:

• Tom Sawyer's bucketful
• Wall pigment; defeat
• A very clean sweep?
• Clean sweep
• Deliberate cover-up of faults
• A hiding of the worst kind?
• Discombobulated — he was, with an overwhelming defeat
• Stand up to take on chess-player — heavy defeat results
• Lime solution; cover up
• Cover-up of defeat
• Chess player was hard to beat comprehensively
• A bit quiet, suppressing dread over cover-up
• Clean up or conceal the wall covering
• Cover up what Hew is fiddling
• Cover-up — wall coating