Possible Clues:

• Cloth coat for iniquitous husband dressed as a woman?
• Lovely guy used to clean in kitchen
• Cloth near the kitchen sink
• Less common word for cloth used for cleaning crockery etc
• Plate of river fish knocked over by kitchen cleaner
• Grid has dodgy wiper
• Cleaning item quiet academician found in archaeological exercise
• Piece of cloth unusually garish presented to duke
• Sponge alternative
• His disguise is in female clothes, when wielding this