Great to have another poster hooked on cryptic clues ... especially when they bring their own style of passwords to the thread.
A tentative guess of EAMBAR for 8. ER for hesitation AB for Able Seaman (I know my Arthur Ransome, even though I've never understood why AB is the abbreviation).
Perhaps there's a kind of grease called MA or AM?
(I did say it was a *tentative* guess).
On the subject of grease, HIRILONDE doesn't quite contain all of LARD. (How very daren't it).