Crossword-Solution: TURPS 5 letters, 9 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

You wait just ’arf a mo!” He had a piece of clean rag in his tool bag, and there was a can of turps in the room.

They gave him fivepence altogether, more than enough to ride all the way; and Crass told him to go at once—there was no need to wait till half past; but before he went Philpot got a small glass bottle out of his tool bag and filled it with oil and turps—two of turps and one of oil—which he gave to Bert to rub into his leg before going to bed: The turps—he explained—was to cure the pain and the oil was to prevent it from hurting the skin.

Then give the metal a coating of vegetable black, which must be mixed with super black japan varnish, thinned with turps, and well strained.

When taken out of the stove, the articles must be allowed to get cold, after which they must be given a coat of super black japan, which, if necessary, must be thinned with turps, a stiff, short bristle brush being employed, and the varnish put on sparingly, so that it will not "run" when it gets warm.

Dane bolting with old Turps!" "I shall never write another story on wallpaper," remarked Peter Brown.