Related Clues:

• Finished (the dishes?)
• Thrown on shore; did dishes
• Cleaned plates etc.
• Did kitchen duty but no longer effective?
• Carried ashore by the tide, exhausted
• No longer successful (colloq.)
• Worked in kitchen after meal, getting exhausted
• Exhausted — had he joined an Irish party?
• No longer successful
• Exhausted wife has worried editor at university
• Did household chore without energy
• Made it to the beach?
• Worked in kitchen, being past it
• Clean finished?
• Exhausted wife, a female joining party in NI