| OILPAINTS | Whistler's Mother couldn't exist without them to lubricate Father in discontented times |
| JULIUSCAESAR | '... and, of course, ___, without whose salad this town couldn't exist...' |
| GIVEADOGABONE | Instruction in children's song that old mother couldn't comply with (4,1,3,1,4) |
| HOLIDAYS | This theme wouldn't exist without them |
| NOBLEMINDED | Idealistic, bone idle male seething in discontented netherworld (5-6) |
| INSTINCT | Popular saint in discontented Cathcart has sixth sense (8) |
| CANOEIST | Is it possible for love to exist without kiss for a paddler? (8) |
| ACRE | Exist without cold water in farm unit (4) |
| ELIXIR | Drug of syrupy consistency intended to lubricate the throat in cases of cough and irritation (6) |
| ENERGY | Vitality in discontented young Frenchman returned (6) |
| SCRIBE | One writes copy in discontented state (6) |
| GRAY | "Arrangement in ___ and Black" (portrait of Whistler's mother) |
| SELFSUPPORTING | Able to exist without external aid |
| WELLAWARE | Certainly knowing setter and solver exist without barrier being put up (4,5) |
| INACTIVE | Still, I can't possibly exist without a head |
| IDEA | "Neither man nor nation can exist without a sublime ___", per Dostoyevsky |
| DOLPHINS | Which sea creatures were once hunted for a small amount of oil in their heads, which was used to lubricate watches? (8) |
| OIL | Work without starting to lubricate it (3) |
| ARTEXHIBITION | Awful rat is charged after Express shows the kiss to Whistler's mother, for example (3,10) |
| REF | Whistler's Mother, effective to an extent |
