Possible Clues:

• Worked hard - no time to get drunk
• O, I was in the van, smoothly
• Moved with difficulty, not having front bit lubricated
• Running smoothly, perhaps
• Having got nothing, I was smoothly in the lead
• Cut, as silk may be
• Lubricated or drunk
• Too drunk to squeak?
• Starting ten back, it came first without a squeak
• Tight