Answer: OILY
OILY is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 138 times.
Referring Clues:
- Overly smooth
 - Like auto shop floors
 - Unctuous
 - Smooth-tongued
 - Like unwashed hair
 - Smooth-talking
 - Bootlicking
 - Slick
 - In need of a shampoo
 - Greasy
 - Not to be trusted
 - Like service station rags
 - Suave to a fault
 - Like unwashed hair, maybe
 - Overly suave
 - Lubricative
 - Smarmy
 - Too smooth
 - Like olives or peanuts
 - Like hands after eating potato chips
 - Like a mechanic's hands
 - Suave, and then some
 - Opposite of dry, as hair
 - Needing shampoo, say
 - Like a service station floor
 - Like some hair
 - Too suave
 - Slick with lubricant
 - Like some salad dressings
 - Like a slick
 - Like creosote
 - Slick, physically or relationally
 - Word on some shampoo bottles
 - Like many a garage floor
 - Way too smooth
 - Like some garage floors
 - Like a scam artist
 - Not dry, as hair
 - Way too suave
 - Like a crankcase
 - Unguinous
 - Like some hair applications
 - Like a garage floor, say
 - Full of grease
 - Like butter
 - Like margarine stains
 - Like margarine
 - Like auto crankcases
 - Like a busy mechanic's rags
 - Smeared with grease
 - Like some driveways
 - Like potato chips
 - Like a grease monkey's rag
 - Like a mechanic's rag
 - Like brilliantine
 - Acne-prone
 - Like a freshly prepped baseball mitt, perhaps
 - Like a dipstick, sometimes
 - Like lipstick
 - Problem skin type
 - Like mechanics' hands
 - Like a dipstick
 - Like garage floors, often
 - Pinguid
 - Like many sunscreens
 - Prone to acne, say
 - Hardly trustworthy
 - Like garage floors
 - Insincerely nice
 - Adjective on some shampoo bottles
 - Excessively suave
 - Type of complexion
 - Opposite of dry, as skin
 - Like sulfuric acid
 - Grease-filled
 - In need of a shampoo, say
 - Too glib
 - Slippery
 - Overly flattering
 - Like the floor of an auto repair shop
 - Oozing with smarm
 - Like sardines
 - Well-lubricated
 - Overly greasy
 - Overly smooth-talking
 - Like an auto repair shop floor
 - Obsequious, in a way
 - Well lubricated
 - Overly ingratiating
 - In an unctuous fashion
 - Hard to grasp, perhaps
 - Oleaginous
 - Suspiciously suave
 - Like an unwiped dipstick
 - Excessively charming
 - Fat-filled
 - Like a mechanic's rags
 - Like slick roads
 - Like bad fried food
 - Like a mechanic's hands, sometimes
 - Too smooth-talking
 - Kind of boid that catches the woim?
 - Fawning
 - Like a garage rag
 - Overly adulatory
 - Annoyingly suave
 - Grease-laden
 - Like mechanics' rags
 - Like greasy food
 - Slick, like a garage floor
 - Slick, as a road
 - Covered with grease
 - Like some fried food
 - Unnervingly smooth
 - Suspiciously flattering, say
 - Like fish with lots of omega-3s
 - Like sardines in a can
 - Lubricated
 - Like many a teen's skin
 - Slick to the touch
 - Like a slick garage floor
 - Full of smarm
 - Slick in consistency
 - Like a slippery garage floor
 - Like a masseuse's hands, often
 - Covered in grease
 - How T-zone skin might get
 - Like many a mechanic's rag
 - Like auto shop rags
 - Like canned sardines and olives, typically
 - Like tinned sardines
 - Like dipsticks
 - Sebaceous
 - Like latkes
 - Like napkins after dabbing pizza
 - Like unwashed hair, perhaps
 - Like canned olives
 - Like focaccia before it goes into the oven
 
Last Seen In:
- LA Times - August 07, 2025
 - LA Times - July 30, 2025
 - USA Today - July 03, 2025
 - LA Times - June 27, 2025
 - LA Times - November 24, 2024
 - New York Times - October 07, 2024
 - LA Times - August 06, 2024
 - New York Times - May 07, 2024
 - USA Today - January 11, 2024
 - USA Today - January 10, 2024
 - LA Times - January 02, 2024
 - USA Today - June 06, 2023
 - LA Times - April 09, 2023
 - New York Times - January 06, 2023
 - USA Today - December 28, 2022
 - LA Times - December 08, 2022
 - USA Today - November 04, 2022
 - New York Times - October 21, 2022
 - New York Times - September 11, 2022
 - LA Times - May 30, 2022
 
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