The Clue
Louvre displays (4 letter answer)
The Answer
OILS
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Notes
The answer OILS is seen frequently, appearing about once every 110 puzzles.
Related Clues
Art
Artworks
Bribes
Lubricates
Paintings
Alipterion essentials
Castor and olive
Certain paintings
Classical paintings
Fixes the squeaks
Hopper medium
Hopper products
Makes unctuous
Masseur's stock
Medium for Raphael
Met display
Mineral and vegetable
Palm products
Picasso medium
Portraitist's medium
Portraitists' purchases
Quiets a squeak
Quiets, in a way
Rembrandt works
Rembrandts, e.g.
Removes squeaks from
Services, in a way
Softens, as leather
Some artwork
Some paintings
Stella medium
Stops squeaking
Traditional paintings
Works at the Louvre
Works at the Met
Wyeth medium
"The Blue Boy" and others
Castor-bean yields
Does a lube job
Edward Hopper's medium
Grant Wood medium
Provides machine maintenance
Robert Motherwell's medium
Some museum hangings
Works in a studio, say
Some Da Vinci pieces
Takes care of the squeaky wheel
Definition
OIL as a noun:
1. a slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water
2. (oil, oil color, oil colour) = oil paint containing pigment that is used by an artist
3. (vegetable oil, oil) = any of a group of liquid edible fats that are obtained from plants
OIL as a verb:
1. cover with oil, as if by rubbing; "oil the wooden surface"
2. (anoint, inunct, oil, anele, embrocate) = administer an oil or ointment to ; often in a religious ceremony of blessing