Related Clues:

• No longer noisy, perhaps
• Worked topless and got drunk
• Aimed to reduce friction
• Moved with difficulty, not having front bit lubricated
• Wife not yet up should be given incentive
• Worked hard without time to get drunk
• Drunk was working having missed start
• Worked with head covered (it could get greasy)
• Ring shop selling food on the way back, drunk
• Drunk not making a squeak?
• Working smoothly?
• Like a smooth-running machine
• Tipsy but well able to move around?
• No longer squeaking, maybe
• Drunk that is occasionally caught by pedestrian