| Pomp, formality |
CEREMONY |
| Press and smooth |
IRON |
| Punctuation marks in compound words |
HYPHENS |
| Send into water or space |
LAUNCH |
| Series of consecutive items |
LIST |
| Showing people to their seats |
USHERING |
| Source |
ORIGIN |
| The Importance of Being ... (Oscar Wilde) |
EARNEST |
| Tubes to suck liquids |
STRAWS |
| Units of electrical resistance |
OHMS |
| Upward part of a plant |
STEM |
| US president lived in a strange RNA age |
REAGAN |
| Usually |
NORMALLY |
| Vehicles for early US settlers |
WAGONS |
| Vitality, get-up-and-go |
ENERGY |
| Where the souls of heroes go in Norse mythology |
VALHALLA |
