Possible Clues:

• Soft, absorbent material used for washing
• The sucker might do this off a sucker
• Be parasitic
• Counter cleaner
• A sucker that needs a sucker to suck on
• 1 across is where this sort of sucker might be
• Alcoholic cake
• It's used to clean bad smell in London area
• Parasite without tail that lives in the sea
• Parasitic sort of 11?