It's not exactly a common word... Think along the same lines as the last three.

PETROLIFEROUS fits the hint, meaning I surmise productive of oils - or should that be productive of stones?

When you clean your old car, you

SCRUB REO

SCRUB REO

Jude the Obscurer

An island where we all belong:

NURD OASIS

Preliminary thoughts

NURD OASIS
DURASSION - the length of a love affair
SUN RADIOS - don't even need batteries
ROUNDASIS - overweight and not changing
RADISSON U - motel school

final thought: dinosaurs


See if you cotton to this one:
TARA: BALES
(or enjoy a fine meal at ARA's TABLE

TARA: BALES

alabaster

Protest sign outside fertilizer factory: NITRITES OUT!

NITRITES OUT

He may protest, but if he does any damage he'll have to make restitution.

IT'S YOUR TOT!

How's that for twisted reasoning?!

IT'S YOUR TOT

Does the tot have a twisted sister?
tortuosity......!

Precipitation, finally... it's a
RITE RAINY night in Georgia.

RITE RAINY

Even if Georgia's not on your mind, it might be on your itinerary.

I'd better not go too far, though; otherwise I LOSE UNCLE SAM

I LOSE UNCLE SAM

miscellaneous

CLOISONNE MOUS
(that's also I LOSE UNC' SOMON)

That would be, I think:
MONONUCLEOSIS

Please come to Park City, UT and join me in
SKIING SEASIDES - 2 words

Good solving!

SKIING SEASIDES = Kissing Disease (another moniker for Mononucleosis)

Tug on this one for a bit:

ARTRIGHTNESS

ARTRIGHTNESS

A tug on my heartstrings!

If you need to catch a leprechaun, a

WEE NET EXISTS - 2 words

WEE NET EXISTS

Sweet Sixteen (I didn't think March Madness began in October!)

NICER LION (go, Penn State?)

My sweet 16 daughter causes madness in every month..

NICERLION

a crinoline, what a nice old-fashioned word. Little girls now have never experienced sharp, starchy slips!

The cowboy wanted to win the barrel race, but his
PINTO LAY down.

Apostrophe to an enzyme: O PTYALIN...
Italian printing machine: LINOTYPA
Elided computer game box: PLAYTION
Unusual alcohol: ATYPINOL
Horseback Afghan warrior - TALIPONY
The entire gamut of my sunburn: I TANOPLY

Lots of fun, but no answers ;-)

Your horseback Afghan warrior is close...
Think "Chantilly Lace.."

and a PONYTAIL hangin' down...

Another nice one!

Now if you could make shiny fabric out of cholesterol everyone would acknowledge your FAT FEAT

FAT FEAT

Ahh, the sound of taffeta!

Now, if you stand near a barber pole or a road crew, you might have that:

STRIPED LOOK.... 2 words.

I dunno -- do they make LOOPED SKIRTs?

Edit - half hour later - or maybe a POODLE SKIRT?

Edit2 - another ten minutes later - Gotta be a POODLE SKIRT !

How 'bout A PROUD MOP ? (That one might just even be clever!)

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A PROUD MOP of hair on the little ankle biter....

a pompadour At least a 9 on the Clevertron..

New one coming soon...

Need worms, crickets, or grubs... visit

Ye Old KEN'S BAIT and Tackle!

If you allow hyphenations I'll put my answer in your IN-BASKET
or throw my wheels in your SKATE-BIN

Hint: Maynard G. Krebs, plural... may he RIP

Had to look him up, thank you, and so I shall abstain.

Change the K to another S and it's BASSINET.

Add an E and it's SNAKEBITE ! (Is there an adjective "snakebit" ? That even uses the letters as they stand!)

KEN'S BAIT

I've never heard of Mr Krebs, either, but I guess he is/was a BEATNIK

At least, that's how I CONSTRUED IT

DESTRUCTION

If you leave it on the vine too long, you know, your

CIU-CIU ROTS

CIU-CIU ROTS

circuitous.... round and round, we go...

Don't you hate it when the cat is sick, and you must clean

ILL CAT PILE??

Maynard G. Krebs was on the "Dobie Gillis Show" in the 50's.. he was the BEATNIK who was afraid of WORK... He was also Gilligan, of Gilligan Island fame, just recently passed away...

ILL CAT PILE

elliptical

Fat seafood: A LIPO-CRAB
(that's also the Spring mouth (sic) called BOCA APRIL)

A LIPO CRAB

parabolic

The banana boat is IN, and the

CARGO RIPE!

CARGO RIPE

paregoric - that is NOT a run-on sentence!

GAMPIRE (because Halloween is coming)

EPIGRAM

Don't be in such a hurry;

BECALM TIME

BECALM TIME

emblematic

LEMON DIAL - scented antiseptic soap

P.S. Isn't Lemon Dial also a not-so-posh neighborhood in London? ("Hearts just as pure and fair..." and all that)

That's:
"Hearts just as pure and fair
May beat in Belgrave Square
As in the lowly air
Of Seven Dials"

LEMON DIAL... or Seven Dials, if you wish..

medallion

Expose your children to reality, to Seven Dials .. don't keep them in an

IRON BUBBLE -- 2 words

IRON BUBBLE

Blue Ribbon

But if you're showing your colors, just post a

QUARTER FLAG, SARA -- two words

Edit: Better make that "two capitalized words." Sorry.

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QUARTER FLAG SARA

Trafalgar Square.... !! This has taken me 2 nights... and it's so obvious...

Spot, the Labrador Retriever, needs exercise. Let's go to the

CANINE POOL

CANINE POOL

Police, anon - Witness Protection Program for cops
No-o pelican - fishing not allowed here, birdie!
Copelianno - the Year of the Ballet
pleonanoic - having multiple tiny facets
apocolinen - catastrophe-causing sheets
poloniance - the Warsaw Pact
non-caliope - merry-go-rounds voted down in Paris
poenocinal - good for you, even though it hurts

(I might have misspelled some of them but since none is correct it doesn't matter)

NAPOLEONIC!!!

what a diarrhetic Great Dane says:

I SOIL DOGCART

napoleonic, eh? good one. never even came close.

I SOIL DOGCART is "cardiologist." [wink]

Here's an "antigram," whose meaning is the opposite of its presentation:

NON-FIRE
(credit to Hot and Arachne, if they should ever come across this page)

NON-FIRE

a raging (they are always mad!) inferno!!

Play croquet with the hottest, newest

OVEN MALLET.

OVEN MALLET

malevolent

GULF NATURE has been much disturbed by recent storms

GULF NATURE

ungrateful

Not for human consumption: CAT LIVER

CAT LIVER

vertical

Think it's hard to dislodge a tick? Try removing a
VELCRO FLEA

CLOVER LEAF

When you go fishing, you might want to try for

A HALIBUT

A HALIBUT

habitual

For some reason, no one likes

A BEER DELUGE

A BEER DELUGE

No one likes the beleaguered soccer moms...

I've just come in from the frosty outdoors, and I'll

HANG ME CAP on the wall...

HANG ME CAP

Here's CHAMPAGNE to our real friends and real pain...

Where would you find a COIN IN STREET ?