Clues for the word "OIL"
We've had 866 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 2016 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily American crossword on April 14, 2025.
Definition of oil
- n. - Any one of a great variety of unctuous combustible substances, not miscible with water; as, olive oil, whale oil, rock oil, etc. They are of animal, vegetable, or mineral origin and of varied composition, and they are variously used for food, for solvents, for anointing, lubrication, illumination, etc. By extension, any substance of an oily consistency; as, oil of vitriol.
- v. t. - To smear or rub over with oil; to lubricate with oil; to anoint with oil.
Referring Clues
- Heating fuel
- Lubricate
- Masseur's need
- Source of Rockefeller money
- Van Gogh's "Irises," e.g.
- Standard product
- Friction easer
- Salad topper
- Fix a squeak
- It may be essential
- Friction reducer
- Engine need
- Many a Rembrandt
- Flattery
- OPEC export
- Driveway blotch
- Semi liquid
- Flattering talk
- Furnace fuel
- Old lamp fill
- Peanut product
- Standard stuff
- Wildcatter's find
- Vinaigrette ingredient
- Garage stain
- Squeaky wheel's need
- Cruet filler
- Black gold
- Gas station supply
- Deep-frying need
- A little squirt?
- Well-supplied resource?
- Masseur's supply
- Well-gotten gain?
- Slick makeup
- Texas tea
- ___ and vinegar
- Squirt can contents
- It gets checked with a stick
- Old master's work
- Salad topping
- Slick stuff
- With "of" and 51-Across, a facial moisturizer
- Bribe
- Painter's medium
- Oklahoma wealth
- "Mona Lisa," for one
- Kind of change
- 3-in-One product
- Shale extract
- Gallery item
- Spill material
- Dressing part
- Saudi export
- Garage supply
- Mideast export
- With 39-Across, Houston or Tulsa, popularly
- Production from a well
- Friction decreaser
- It's well-regulated
- Try to loosen
- Many a fine artwork
- Something struck
- Loosen up, maybe
- Quaker State, e.g.
- Refinery input
- See 57-Down
- Crude, e.g.
- A driver might dip into it
- "Texas tea"
- Museum hanging
- "Black gold"
- Standard offering of old
- Something good to strike
- Corn product
- Nigerian export
- Little squirt, maybe
- Venezuelan export
- De-squeak
- Standard ___
- ___ change
- It's well-supplied
- Work in a gallery
- OPEC product
- Salad additive
- Garage stock
- Dipstick coating
- Monet work
- Biggest export of 99-Down
- Loosen, in a way
- Bathwater additive
- Engine fluid
- Tin Man's request
- Salad dressing ingredient
- Titusville discovery
- Squeak stopper
- Crude stuff
- Squeak-stopping application
- Squeaky wheel application
- It can be hydrogenated
- OPEC's concern
- Kind of slick
- It's used on baseball gloves
- North Sea resource
- Cause of some skin problems
- Valdez spill
- Squeak squelcher
- Vinegar's partner
- Iraq resource
- Gusher goo
- Hurricane lamp liquid
- Kirkuk product
- Sunflower product
- Iraq's chief resource
- OPEC commodity
- Cargo of the Valdez
- Commodity known as "black gold"
- Coat of many colors?
- Well-produced commodity?
- Olive or sesame
- Drum filler
- Product called "black gold"
- Iraqi resource
- Alaska resource
- Cruet input, often
- Dressing component
- Exxon Valdez cargo
- Cruet contents
- Spill material, perhaps
- Teapot Dome material
- High-priced commodity in 2008
- Slick material?
- Desert Storm issue
- Engine lubricant
- Joint relief for the Tin Man
- Lucky strike
- Heating alternative
- Manet's "The Luncheon on the Grass," e.g.
- Permian Basin yield
- Palm product
- Business for Shell or ExxonMobil
- Covering for some wrestlers
- Pumpjack output
- Masseuse's supply
- Fluid on a dipstick
- Contents of some barrels
- Squeaky hinge application
- Crude resource
- Manet medium
- Qatar's chief revenue source
- See 51-Across
- Well-nigh stuff?
- Tin Man's cry
- Salad dressing base
- "Mona Lisa," e.g.
- Standard commodity?
- Tulsa industry
- Shell commodity
- It might be changed quarterly
- Heating choice
- It's often changed at garages
- Crude in a gusher
- "Starry Night," for one
- Source of Rockefeller's wealth
- Crude discovery
- Kind of filter
- See 15-Down
- Recent commodity index booster
- Crude cargo
- Squeak quieter
- Alaska's main export
- Maintain, as some tools
- Source of the Getty fortune
- Pipeline product
- Kind of leak
- Squeak solution
- Tin Man's need
- Olive or corn follower
- Well-delivered product
- It can follow the first word of 17-, 26-, 37-, 50- and 60-Across
- Wildcat strike?
- What TV's Ewings and Clampetts had in common
- Crude from a well
- OPEC output
- Substance in salad dressing
- It may be crude
- Salad-dressing ingredient
- Dressing ingredient
- Sunflower yield
- ___ painting
- Olive product
- ___ and vinegar
- "Giant" discovery
- Museum piece, maybe
- ___ field
- Part of EVOO
- Crankcase contents
- Dressing need
- ___ drum
- Wildcatter's strike
- Canadian resource
- Slick material
- Upton Sinclair novel
- "Crude" fuel
- Some change it regularly
- "There Will Be Blood" focus
- "Lorenzo's ___" (1992)
- Lamp contents, once
- What the Ewings and Clampetts had in common
- Prudhoe Bay find
- Water's antithesis
- Slick starter
- It should be changed regularly
- Tanker's cargo
- Source of the Ewing fortune
- Standard product, once
- It eases friction
- Jed's discovery
- Driller's quest
- It made Jed a millionaire
- Olive, for one
- Van Gogh's "Irises," e.g.
- Paint base, sometimes
- Pan or can fluid
- 3-IN-ONE, e.g.
- Use 3-IN-ONE, e.g.
- It can be crude or refined
- Well output, perhaps
- Much-discussed commodity
- Big Nigerian export
- Cruet contents, often
- Standard product?
- Water clasher
- Export of Indonesia and Venezuela
- Midnight fuel
- Kirkuk resource
- Natural resource
- North Slope yield
- Crude substance?
- Prudhoe Bay product
- Squeak silencer
- Joint application
- Dressing choice
- Manet, maybe
- Winter delivery
- Crankcase fluid
- Wildcat strike
- Fry cook's stock
- Texas strike
- Jed's find
- 1927 Upton Sinclair novel
- Canadian export
- Salad bar bowlful
- ___ spill
- Salad-dressing base
- Well output
- Jed Clampett's find
- Texaco's business
- Crude in a tanker
- Fuel found in all three theme entries
- Flaxseed byproduct
- See 2-Down
- Lube (up)
- OPEC supply
- Viscous substance
- Word with pan or paint
- Libyan export
- Tin Man's cure
- Gulf of Mexico product
- Silence, possibly
- Jed Clampett's find on "The Beverly Hillbillies"
- Anointing substance
- It's struck in fields
- Jed Clampett's wealth source
- Olive or peanut product
- Van Gogh work
- Quiet, in a way
- Slick liquid
- Safflower ___
- Vinaigrette component
- Petroleum
- Vinegar's counterpart
- "Lorenzo's ___" (1992)
- Vinaigrette essential
- Feat of Klee
- Kneading need
- Ebon flow
- Corn or castor
- Shell game?
- Spill stuff
- ___ painting
- "Giant" discovery
- ___ field
- ___ drum
- "Crude" fuel
- Arabian export
- Liniment for the Tin Man
- 2010 Gulf problem
- Driller's goal
- It may be made from olives or corn
- Stuff in a drum
- Olive byproduct
- Peanut or sesame, e.g.
- Rag goo
- Jett Rink's find
- "No Blood for ___" (protest sign)
- Lube
- Alberta gold?
- Atar
- Alberta gold
- Atar, for one
- Whale or gear follower
- Refinery stuff
- Fossil fuel
- Standard offering
- Word with baby, bath or banana
- Artist's paint
- Artist's paint
- Permian Basin output
- Refined stuff, usually
- Drilled commodity
- Opec concern
- OPEC subject
- Crude subject
- Syrian export
- Pine product
- Contents of some wells
- OPEC subject
- See 44 Down
- 3000 mile change
- Upton Sinclair novel on which "There Will Be Blood" is based
- Corn byproduct
- Fluid for a car
- Corn byproduct
- Snake ___ (hooey)
- Lubricant
- 15-Across' product
- Art medium
- Drill target
- Motor need
- Gusher flow
- Type of paint
- Gusher's gush
- Gusher output
- Cooking need
- Kuwait export
- Vinegar partner
- Texas industry
- The Da Vinci coat?
- Rembrandt's medium
- Squeak remover
- Car need
- Part of E.V.O.O.
- Squeak remedy
- Spindle-top spillage
- 'Texas tea'
- Refinery product
- ... and its product
- Rembrandt painting
- Rembrandt medium
- Spindletop flow
- Grease
- Unctuous stuff
- The Carrington fortune
- Drill target
- Oman export
- Garage fluid
- Crude liquid
- OPEC stuff
- Qatar export
- Auto fluid
- Lamp fuel
- Iraq export
- Car fluid
- Liquid gold
- Olive ___
- Reason for the Iraq war, according to many
- Cruet fluid
- Source of the Beverly Hillbillies' wealth
- *Vinaigrette ingredient
- Persian Gulf commodity
- Monet medium
- Key export through the Strait of Hormuz
- It can be crude
- It's well-produced
- Fry cook's supply
- Drill team's goal?
- Try to stop from squeaking, say
- See 24 Across
- Car maintenance must
- Wok coater
- Rockefeller's biz
- Jed Clampett's discovery
- Safflower product
- It's regularly changed in automobiles
- It may be struck in a field
- Petroleum product
- Squeak eradicator
- Valdez cargo
- Stuff applied to a scalp
- See 74-Across
- It may be crude or refined
- Contents of a cruet
- Old-time whaler's harvest
- Prevent from squeaking
- Daniel Plainview's obsession
- It made old Jed a millionaire
- Aromatherapist's supply
- 'Black gold'
- Kuwaiti export
- It can be refined
- Tanker's cago
- It's often crude
- Drilling target
- Dallas money maker
- Baby ___
- Medium for Van Dyck or van Gogh
- "There Will Be Blood" subject
- Oklahoma resource
- It's struck in Texas
- Jed Clampett's bubblin' crude
- It can foul spark plugs
- Engine additive
- Refined resource
- OPEC fuel
- Slippery stuff
- Rockefeller resource
- Nude medium, often
- Change in a car?
- Refined petroleum
- Olive or sunflower extract
- Drilling goal
- Choice for a portrait
- Sub sandwich dressing item
- Pemex product
- Baby or banana follower
- "Lorenzo's ___" (1992 film)
- Masseuse's bottleful
- ___ Can Harry (Mighty Mouse nemesis)
- Certain paintings
- Tin Man's plea
- Van Gogh medium
- Source of Jed Clampett's wealth
- Crude material
- Canola ___
- Slippery substance
- "Dallas" commodity
- Winter delivery, for many
- Olive or peanut extract
- Tar sands product
- Jiffy Lube supply
- Deep matter?
- Spa substance
- Cook's supply
- Texas resource
- Source of Blake Carrington's wealth
- With 46-Down, common canvas coater
- Wildcatter's quest
- Canola product
- Many an art museum piece
- Frying liquid
- Bath enhancement
- It may be coming down the pipeline
- Whale ___
- "The Starry Night," e.g.
- Auto need
- Linseed ___
- Lucky strike?
- What the "O" in OPEC does not stand for, surprisingly
- Cruet liquid
- Something well-kept?
- Goo that's struck
- Coal alternative
- Big Alaska resource
- Alberta export
- Car engine necessity
- Subject of a 1973 crisis
- Cooking fat
- Fish ___
- Thing to check on a car
- ___ well
- Venezuela export
- Fuel associated with midnight
- Liquid for frying
- Saudi Arabian export
- Sesame ___
- Big U.S. import
- Big export of Saudi Arabia and Norway
- ___ and vinegar dressing
- Restaurant dip for bread
- Kind of painting
- Gear protector
- Bath additive
- De-squeaker
- Medium for many 13-Down
- Sesame extract
- Common lubricant
- Gallery hanging
- Painting medium
- It may be checked at the station
- Sautéing substance
- Frying medium
- Texas 'tea'
- Texas export
- Engine grease
- See 123-Across
- It's crude, at first
- Vegetable ___
- With 24-Down, drilling structure
- Tin Woodman's can filler
- Fish or corn yield
- Embrocate
- See 50-Across
- Surprisingly, it's not the "O" in OPEC
- One may be essential
- Heat source
- Canola or sesame
- Press output
- Driller's paydirt
- Lubricant or fuel for a furnace
- Black gold?
- Squeak fixer
- Vinegar mixer
- Coconut product
- Palm ___
- Crude commodity
- It's crude but valuable
- Salad stuff
- Tanker's load
- Whaler's product
- Ecuadorean export
- Barrel contents
- Crude ___
- Unctuous speech
- Something kept in reserve?
- Skin or slick preceder
- Engine stuff
- 38-Across, for one
- Salad topping option
- Home heating fuel
- Tanker cargo
- Motor fluid
- Desqueak
- Motor or olive
- Something a car engine
- Corn or peanut product
- It stops squeaks
- Machine lubricant
- What car engines need
- Dark fluid for a car engine
- Type of painting
- Something an engine needs
- Something for car engines
- Corn or engine product
- Exxon product
- Check the gas and ___
- What chicken is fried in
- It's squirted on squeaks
- Car engines need it
- Vinaigrette ingedient
- It might be crude
- Tin Man's continual need
- Baseball glove application
- Car maintenance application
- Engine's need
- Substance for slippery wrestling
- Light on a dashboard
- Indicator on a dashboard
- Peak ___
- Engines need it
- Engine lubricator
- Masseuse's stuff
- Stuff to fix a squeaky hinge
- Grapeseed or sesame
- What the Tin Man needed
- Fuel
- Squeak eliminator
- Fluid for an engine
- Canola, for one
- Car engine lubricant
- Lubricant for an engine
- Driller's quest, often
- The Tin Man's salvation
- Sydney band Midnight ___
- "Blue Sky Mine" Midnight ___
- What Steve Earle used from a "Snake"
- Rick Ross "___ Money Gang"
- Incubus "___ and Water"
- Tower of Power "Only So Much ___ in the Ground"
- AC/DC "Cover You in ___"
- Midnight ___
- "Beds are Burning" Midnight ___
- Aussie band Midnight ___
- Steve Earle "Snake ___"
- "Diesel and Dust" Midnight ___
- Bruce "Man, that ain't ___, that's blood"
- Liquid in the boiler
- A well drilled product?
- Unctuous circle at a film centre
- Mineral wealth means nothing to the Italian
- Change ten pounds getting something for the car
- What the poilu has to put on his hair
- Engineers may use it cleverly in a radio link
- Natural resource maybe helping to make millions
- It helps the wheels go round
- Ring the film centre for hair-dressing
- Substance that makes the skin waterproof
- Ring the film centre for something smooth
- The poilu's hair dressing?
- A drop from the can?
- Being well drilled can make men rich
- Well-produced stuff
- Tanker's tankful
- Masseur's bottleful
- Dipstick drips
- Anoint
- A dressing
- Deep fryer fill
- Well goo
- Sunflower seed product
- Crankcase substance
- Contents of many a barrel
- Refinery material
- Mineral ___
- Certain museum piece
- Long-lasting stuff in a Hanukkah miracle
- Chanukah miracle fluid
- "Essential" substance
- Watteau work
- What Soul Asylum's "Black Gold" is about, perhaps
- Salad dressing liquid, olive ___
- Cod liver ___
- What can be extracted from half of olives treated?
- A little squirt?
- Cooking liquid in a deep fryer
- Drop out of a can?
- Stuff in some barrels
- Used in frying, it may be dripping
- Extra-virgin olive ___
- Cooking liquid that can come from olives or peanuts
- What OPEC nations have a lot of
- Fuel that comes up in a gusher
- Hinge quieter
- Alaskan export
- Automotive fluid that might be changed every 5,000 miles
- ExxonMobil's business
- Lubricant to remove squeaks
- Wesson product
- Mineral wealth meaning nothing to the Italian?
- Massage parlor supply
- Major energy source
- Canola or coconut
- Well yield
- Lubricating squirt
- Liquid used in one's toilet
- Contents of some cans
- Lucky strike?
- Heating option
- Nigeria's biggest export
- Whale blubber yield, to the Inuit
- Stir-fry necessity
- Valuable commodity
- Resource extracted from Alaska's North Slope
- Deep fryer's fill
- Something kept in reserve?
- Surprisingly, what the "O" in OPEC doesn't stand for
- Does an engine use none of it for half a mile?
- ___ lamp
- Application for the Mr. Universe contest?
- Many a Monet
- Clampett's "bubblin' crude"
- ExxonMobil product
- Key Persian Gulf cargo
- Some is changed regularly
- Target of refinement
- Word with baron or basin
- It's needed for things to run smoothly
- Fryer filler
- 108 Across commodity
- Liquid in a drum
- Big Angolan export
- Da Vinci's "The Last Supper," for one
- Major export from 19-Across
- 42-Across filler, perhaps
- Vinegar and ___ dressing
- Shell's industry
- Can for the car
- Watercolor alternative
- Titusville find, 1859
- The poilu's hair dressing?
- ExxonMobil business
- Fryer contents
- Coconut ___
- Smooth photo finish on a piece of film
- Good thing to strike
- Fuel for some lamps
- Pipeline flow
- Common lubricator
- Vinegar complement
- It's in the pipeline
- Rembrandt or Vermeer
- Liquid in a deep fryer
- Deep fryer liquid
- Peanut or palm product
- Vinaigrette need
- Product of the first parts of 18-, 28-, 44- and 58-Across
- LOF part
- It's in the field of mineral resources
- Energy source
- Clampett's strike
- It might be "on canvas"
- The Tin Man needed it
- Work in a museum
- Word after "peanut" or "truffle"
- Castor bean product
- It may be checked at a station
- Product of dates
- What a derrick pumps
- Gusher gush
- Liquid for greasing a pan
- Form of fuel
- Rembrandt's "The Night Watch," e.g.
- Hydrogenated ___
- Something sprinkled on salad
- Tankerful
- Stir-fry need
- Duck I left because it's a bit greasy
- ___ change (garage job)
- Stuff between metal gears meshing
- Salad bar stuff
- It doesn't naturally mix with water
- Vinegar accompaniment
- Flaxseed product
- Alaskan resource
- Liquid in a slick
- Tin Man's liquid
- Well resource
- Home heating option
- Pore secretion
- Portrait medium
- Wildcatter's target
- Word after "canola" or "castor"
- Tankful or tankerful
- What the police had on his hair?
- It can be extracted from peanuts and coconuts
- Car engine's need
- Liquid to fry in
- Big Alaska export
- Frida Kahlo medium
- Alternative to acrylic or pastel
- Chief export of 37-Across
- A car fluid
- Frying need
- Word with baby or snake
- Petrostate's reserves
- Need for making latkes
- Word after "castor" or "canola"
- Olive extract
- Grease monkey's "grease"
- What the poilu has on his hair?
- 4-Down may be added to it
- Tempura need
- Stuff between gears?
- Word after "palm" or "peanut"
- Squeaky-wheel need
- Latke making need
- Ingredient in a deep fryer but not an air fryer
- Avocado or coconut liquid
- Word with holy or heating
- Stuff for salads or engines
- Squeak-squelching stuff
- "Lorenzo's ___"
- Kind of lamp
- Need for making deep-fried mandu
- "___ of Every Pearl's Un-Insides" (SOPHIE album)
- Artist's medium
- Shipment from Alaska's North Slope
- Scarce resource in the Hanukkah story
- Cod liver product
- Medium for Kehinde Wiley's "President Barack Obama"
- Type of lubricant or fuel
- What a dipstick measures the level of
- Engine's necessity
- Industry that encourages strikes?
- Midnight fuel?
- Kind of paint
- Resource measured in barrels
- Liquid that stops squeaks
- Word with filter or field
- A well drilled product?
- Stuff in a car engine
- Liquid in a Hanukkah miracle
- Argan or jojoba
- Liquid that tames beards
- Massage therapist's supply
- Holy ___
- Base of some paints
- Clampett's find
- Old-fashioned menorah filler
- Word with snake or salad
- Jojoba ___ (hair product)
- Liquid for sauteing
- Product of Shell or ExxonMobil
- Olive or baby
- It fixes squeaks
- Coconut or canola product
- Something you might strike
- Aioli ingredient ... or three of the letters in "aioli"
- Sesame product
- Word with change or spill
- Cooking staple
- Falafel-making need
- Cooking liquid
- Liquid added to pizza dough
- Slick substance
- "Black gold" or "Texas tea"
- Fryolator need
- ___ stick (frequent Jean-Michel Basquiat medium)
- Car engine need
- Medium for van Gogh
- Olive or avocado product
- Massage liquid
- Concerning driveway sight
- A little squirt, sometimes
- Essential ___ (sandalwood or lavender)
- "Data is the new ___" (popular wisdom in economics)
- A drop from the can?
- Frequent medium for 39-Down
- Engine or cooking additive
- Mayonnaise component
- Stuff refineries refine
- Ingredient replaced by applesauce in some recipes
- With 40-Across, offshore work site
- Olive or corn product
- It can cause slick floors
- Liquid for a car
- Word after "olive" or "snake"
- Word after "vegetable" or "motor"
- Vegetable or olive liquid
- How John D. Rockefeller made his money
- Massage need
- Coconut extraction
- Menorah liquid
- Ingredient in vinaigrette
- Peanut ___
- Cleansing ___ (kind of makeup remover)
- Vinaigrette base
- Chef or masseuse's liquid
- Common machine lubricant
- Paint type
- Liquid aka "Texas tea"
- Liquid that doesn't mix with water
- Olive or canola product
- Commodity measured in barrels
- "Olive" or "canola" liquid
- ___ change (routine car maintenance)
- Liquid that miraculously burned for eight nights
- Squeaky wheel remedy
- WD-40, for example
- Essential ___
- Deep-frying liquid
- Olive or coconut product
- Safflower extract
- Liquid in the story of Hanukkah
- Upton Sinclair novel that inspired the film "There Will Be Blood"
- Painting material
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