Puzzle Description:

a bucket of water

#1: besmirched tea (Besmirched Tea) on Dec 29, 2019 [SPOILER]

At first, I thought it was a RIP Chevy tombstone but once the answer popped up, it was clear as... something clear and liquidous

I know what word you're looking for, besmirched. Glass. It is clear, and technically a liquid - one with incredibly high viscosity. It is obviously the most logical substance one would think of when they need to compare two things that are clear and liquidous.

Or vodka.

Stained glass in very old churches can be dated by the flow of the glass over the centuries.

Very light beer

Glass is not a liquid - it is an amorphous solid. While *technically* that means it could flow, the speed at which that happens is so phenomenally slow that it would take longer than the universe has existed for cathedral glass to look like it has sagged.
A Scientific American article explains the look of the glass:
"Why old European glass is thicker at one end probably depends on how the glass was made. At that time, glassblowers created glass cylinders that were then flattened to make panes of glass. The resulting pieces may never have been uniformly flat and workers installing the windows preferred, for one reason or another, to put the thicker sides of the pane at the bottom. This gives them a melted look, but does not mean glass is a true liquid." (22 Feb 2007)

Fascinating Joe

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