Related Clues:

• Makeshift wig, maybe
• Floor scrubber
• Wash the tops of modern organic products
• Post-spill need
• Cotton or gauze etc used for cleaning a wound
• Hair of the dog knocked back
• Was terribly black - has become cleaner
• With ''Clean the decks,'' points to a sailor
• Old clumsy fellow was injured close to pub
• Wound was bleeding, initially needing this?
• 15 14 -- one/two blood groups of Cornwall/Devon?
• Was enigmatic Becket initially something absorbing in theatre?
• Perhaps Cornish sailor will get to clean the deck
• Son with seaman making deck cleaner
• Cornish sailor's mop?