Related Clues:

• Like winter roads
• Like some hair applications
• Smeared with grease
• Needing salt, perhaps
• Emotionally distant
• Far from genial
• Like auto crankcases
• Needing shampoo, say
• Far from friendly
• Hardly welcoming
• Not merely aloof
• Like a mechanic's rag
• Ringed with rime
• Not dry, as hair
• Like some fried foods