| SMEARED | Daubed or marked with a greasy substance or with something that stains |
| SMIRCH | Smear with something that stains or dirties (6) |
| IMBRUES | Buries James 3rd, and wets with something that stains |
| EOSIN | Something that stains Romeo's intent to an extent (5) |
| STREAK | A line or trace of contrasting colour, substance or texture; a public naked sprint; a run of good or bad luck; or, a pervading characteristic (6) |
| PILLAR | A space-occupying substance or thing, such as a present placed in a Christmas stocking, a stem of foliage/greenery incorporated into a bouquet or the tobacco in a cigar (6) |
| WAXPALM | South American tree yielding a greasy substance (3,4) |
| ASMEAR | Archaic term for to spread a greasy substance over (6) |
| RECOIL | About 100 on a greasy substance spring back in horror (6) |
| NONFAT | Having had a greasy substance removed (3-3) |
| GLOBULE | Small droplet of a greasy substance (7) |
| STRAWMAN | A scarecrow; a nominal head; a person of no substance; or, a fallacious, sham or weak argument, set up to be easily refuted/knocked down (5,3) |
| VAIN | Something that is fruitless or marked by futility say |
| WORRIED | Afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble. Synonyms: disquieted, disturbed |
| SLUMP | A sudden or marked decline or failure (5) |
| FATHEAD | Stupid fellow with a greasy lot of hair (7) |
| MOW | Do a chore that stains white shoes green |
| SMIRCHED | Smeared with something that soils or stains. |
| YOUNGGUN | A keen beginner, my solver's no good with something that needs foresight |
| SMEAR | From "butter, fat, grease, ointment", a smudge, splodge, splotch or streak of such substance; or, a slur or slanderous attack (5) |
