Possible Clues:

• This paint completely dry, is it?
• Like some candles or nozzles
• As paint may be on edges of door, dash covering it
• Like some paint floating in pond across river
• Thick type of paint
• Agree to suppress last of emotion -- tear unlikely to flow
• Mess-free, as candles
• Sort of paint depiction of 13, presumably
• Thixotropic (paint)
• Not running from agreement to collect new rent