Possible Clues:

• Ceresin, a slippery wax
• Build up
• Lest surrounded, soldiers proliferate
• Appreciate where batsman is safe
• Where starch may be found — or wax?
• Raise, expand
• At home credit packet of ecstasy say? Top that!
• Shoot up at home with line on trousers
• In line for a rise in wages, perhaps
• Grow and thrive