Possible Clues:

• Sauce - alignment - bandage
• One is just putting it on, being so saucy
• Vinaigrette or French, say
• Compress the early-morning routine
• The S.A. lad needs this before he can be fully and tastefully clothed
• What a saucy way to be wound around a wound
• No longer barely saucy
• Donning saucy attire
• Preparing sauce
• Putting on a saucy get-up