Answer: OILED
OILED is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 116 times.
Referring Clues:
- Half-seas over
 - De-squeaked
 - Made smooth, in a way
 - Like smooth-running machines
 - Tight
 - Lit
 - Blotto
 - Snockered
 - Seeing pink elephants
 - Tipsy
 - Roaring drunk
 - Stopped from squeaking
 - Like a bike chain, usually
 - Lubricated
 - Drunk as a skunk
 - Treated a squeak, perhaps
 - Squelched a squeak
 - Tended to a squeak
 - Kept from squeaking
 - Working smoothly
 - Tended a squeaky hinge
 - Stopped a squeak
 - Silenced a hinge
 - Responded to a squeak
 - Like a bodybuilder's body, in competition
 - Not squeaky anymore
 - Got rid of the squeak
 - Like some smoothly running machines
 - Added lubrication to
 - Drunk, in slang
 - Well-___ (smoothly functioning)
 - Stinko
 - Made unctuous
 - Pie-eyed
 - Juiced
 - Got the squeaks out of
 - Quieted, in a way
 - No longer squeaking
 - Slicked up
 - Squelched, as a squeak
 - Fixed, as a squeak
 - Readied, as an alley
 - Quiet now, perhaps
 - Silenced, in a way
 - Made slick
 - Cut down on noise, maybe
 - Feeling no pain
 - Like a bodybuilder, in competition
 - Beyond tipsy
 - Greased
 - Like Mr. Universe in competition
 - Did routine maintenance
 - Well-___ (drunk)
 - Well-___ (working smoothly)
 - Like some bodybuilders' bodies
 - Smashed
 - Applied 3-in-One to
 - No longer squeaky
 - Slick, perhaps
 - Given a lube job
 - Well-___ machine
 - Like some wrestlers' bodies
 - Made quiet, maybe
 - Rid of squeaks
 - Got rid of a squeak
 - Tended a squeak
 - Fixed a squeak
 - Lubed
 - Boozed up
 - Made quiet, perhaps
 - Treated with WD-40, say
 - Added lubricant to
 - Lubed up
 - Squelched, as squeaks
 - Newly silent, perhaps
 - Loosened up, in a way
 - Drunk
 - Got rid of a squeak in
 - Treated, as a squeak
 - Under the table
 - Like well-maintained engines
 - Kept from sticking
 - Solved, as a squeak
 - No longer noisy, perhaps
 - Working smoothly?
 - Like a smooth-running machine
 - No longer squeaking, maybe
 - Ended the squeaking
 - Stewed
 - Stopped the squeaking
 - Removed a squeak from
 - Removed a squeak
 - Dealt with a squeak
 - Treated with WD-40
 - Lubed (up)
 - Quieted, as a hinge
 - Used WD-40 on
 - Like a bodybuilder, during competition
 - Quieted, as noisy hinges
 - Like no-longer-noisy hinges
 - Three sheets to the wind
 - Not squeaking
 - Quieted, as a rusty hinge
 - Quieted, as a squeak
 - Made less squeaky
 - Prepped, as a pan
 - Like bicycle chains
 - Lubricated, perhaps
 - Like a well-___ machine
 - No longer squeaky (one hopes!)
 - Like the Tin Man, after meeting Dorothy
 - Like many baking sheets before baking
 - Used lubricant on
 - Greased as a pan
 - Greased, like a baking sheet
 - Well-lubricated
 
Last Seen In:
- USA Today - October 15, 2025
 - USA Today - February 12, 2025
 - LA Times - July 02, 2024
 - LA Times - September 19, 2023
 - USA Today - July 05, 2023
 - New York Times - June 11, 2023
 - LA Times - December 19, 2022
 - LA Times - July 04, 2022
 - New York Times - June 17, 2022
 - LA Times - June 13, 2022
 - LA Times - March 03, 2022
 - New York Times - December 26, 2021
 - USA Today - November 12, 2021
 - USA Today - October 01, 2021
 - Universal - May 13, 2021
 - Universal - November 23, 2020
 - Universal - October 29, 2020
 - Netword - August 11, 2020
 - New York Times - July 26, 2020
 - Netword - June 04, 2020
 
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