| POMADE | Oil- or water-based ointment for the hair designed to make it slick and easy to style (6) |
| MEDIUM | Channel or means by which something is communicated; or, a substance such as oil or water in which pigments are mixed (6) |
| RATTLE | Baby's toy designed to make a noise when shaken (6) |
| MOUSSE | Foam used to style hair (6) |
| OILIER | More slick and greasy |
| GRACES | Slick and Kelly |
| URBANE | Slick and sophisticated |
| PERMIT | Licence to style a woman's hair thus? |
| CHERUB | Legendary red ointment for child that's really dear (6) |
| ARNICA | Ointment for bruises (6) |
| PIGMENTS | Powders mixed with oil or water to create paints; dyes or inks generally; or, carotenoids, chlorophylls or other colours in animal or plant cells (8) |
| POMADES | Ointments for the hair (7) |
| PIXIEHOODS | Pointed little vintage hats, tied under the chin, designed to make babies and toddlers look fairylike, impish or positively elfin (5,5) |
| SMOOTHIE | One who is agreeable, artificially or naturally sweet, possibly unctuous, suave or slick and generally blends with other old fruits, like the blended thickie to which they are likened (8) |
| PIPELINE | A system of tubing for conveyance of gas, oil or water; or, any continuous channel by which information is transmitted or goods supplied (8) |
| BOREHOLE | A narrow shaft made in the ground, especially to locate oil or water (8) |
| NATURALRESOURCE | Broke a raconteur's rule for oil or water and so on (7,8) |
| EBULLIENCE | Word for a boiling over of lava, oil or water, thus for a bubbling up of cheer, enthusiasm, excitement etc (10) |
| LIPBALM | Ointment for the kisser (3,4) |
| WELL | An excavation giving access to oil or water; a natural mineral spring; a nautical cockpit; a lift-shaft; or, an inkpot housed in a hole in a desk (4) |
