| Inauguration rituals |
OATHS |
| Kills it onstage |
SLAYS |
| Like a three-hour movie |
LONG |
| Male sheep |
RAM |
| More recent |
NEWER |
| Mouth-related |
ORAL |
| New York baseball mascot |
MRSMET |
| Not likely to bend |
UNCOMPROMISING |
| Office plants |
FERNS |
| Pained cry |
YELP |
| Pained cry |
YOWL |
| Pat. ___. (brief designation for an invention) |
PEND |
| Pipe wrench, e.g |
TOOL |
| Ponzi schemers and such |
CROOKS |
| Prefix for 'dynamic' |
AERO |
| R's meaning in some text messages |
ARE |
| Random ___ of kindness |
ACTS |
| River in Ethiopia |
NILE |
| Saoirse of 'Lady Bird' |
RONAN |
| Second half of a rhyming cocktail |
TAI |
| Shared space |
COMMONROOM |
| Shark part |
FIN |
| She duetted with Brandy on 'The Boy Is Mine' |
MONICA |
| Shopping bag, perhaps |
TOTE |
| Showed surprise |
GAPED |
| SoCal-set legal drama |
LALAW |
| Soothes |
CALMS |
| Spooky-sounding lake |
ERIE |
| Taiwan's continent |
ASIA |
| Totally dominates |
OWNS |
| Trip that's Swahili for 'journey' |
SAFARI |
| Utah city that's an anagram of 'Rome' |
OREM |
| Very attentive |
RAPT |
| Well-___ machine |
OILED |
| Word that follows 'Black' and 'Spec' in video game titles |
OPS |
| ___ Christian Andersen |
HANS |
| ___ mater |
ALMA |
| ___-bitsy |
ITSY |
