Possible Clues:

• Smooth when in neutral
• Sticky with fat
• Unctuous, when former foreign minister's about
• In short, great, simple and fat altogether
• Unctuous, being lubricated
• Greek midshipman covered with oil
• Describes some chips at golf? Second iron isn't hard!
• Like aging hair, absorbing when full of oil
• Type of spoon from Galway right for local duck soup in America
• Pole at work may be so smeared!