The Clue
Monet medium (3 letter answer)
The Answer
OIL
Tags
Notes
The answer OIL is very common and appears about once every 49 puzzles.
Related Clues
Bribe
Canvas
Flatter
Fuel
Linseed ___
Lubricant
Lubricate
Aromatherapist's supply
"Black gold"
Cottonseed product
Cruet filler
Dressing part
Fix a squeak
Garage stain
Heating fuel
Industrial staple
Kuwaiti export
Midnight fluid
Naphtha, e.g.
Nigerian export
Oklahoma wealth
Olive or suntan
Painter's medium
Palm product
Petrodollar source
Salad addition
Shipment from Texas
Slick makeup
Slick substance
Standard product
Texaco's business
Unctuous speech
Vinaigrette component
Wildcatter's find
Business for Shell or ExxonMobil
Kind of cloth or can
Kind of paint or well
Kuwait's great resource
Old master's work
Olive or crude follower
Source of Rockefeller money
Troubled water's smoother
Troubled waters' soother
Unctuous, flattering speech
Word with can or cloth
Try to stop from squeaking, say
Word with baby, bath or banana
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