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Answer for the clue "Oil-based paste mentioned in the lyrics to "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" ", 10 letters:
plasticine

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n. modelling clay.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
modeling clay substitute, 1897, from plastic (adj.) + -ine (2).

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Plasticine , a brand of modelling clay , is a putty -like modelling material made from calcium salts, petroleum jelly and aliphatic acids . The name is a registered trademark of Flair Leisure Products plc . Plasticine is used extensively for children's ...

Usage examples of plasticine.

Sometimes you put a little bit of talcum powder on the lock, then press Plasticine into the keyway, pull it out and put it in a secure container so you can take imprints later.

As the synchronous emotional outbreak began to rise within her, he threw himself to one side, into the pile of discarded plasticine containers.

Satisfied, he removed the outer plasticine wrapping to reveal a second casing of paper.

He opened his folder and removed several plasticine image sheets, which he passed around to his counterparts.

Sometimes friends and girls are with me and I practice my fingers on the Plasticine of female limbs and chatter about hats and heels and art.

We stand before a monstrous diorama, the younger Kennedy in the act of receiving the shot in the pantry that killed him, one hand raised, the other down, the head exploding in the impact, the bodies around him in those strange postures of attention which can be captured only in frieze, trapped movement is grotesque and he puts a hand in my back, pushes, sends me lunging through the serim and I am literally in the pantry, the dead air coursing through my open mouth, the dead forms surrounding me and closer to the plasticine than I am meant to be I can see all of the tiny flaws driven into their faces, the cracked and broken places where the dead spaces of wire and putrefecation begin.

His bodypaint had run and mixed till he looked like a mess of balled-up plasticine, with his macaw-feather pubic bush tatty and mud-stained now.

The occupational therapists say it's even better than drawing and painting, so some of these people work in plasticine and soft stone, and some of them get to be good.

The old features will show up no matter how cunning the plasticine.