| COINA | "To ___ phrase" |
| HOLD | "... to have and to ___ ..." (phrase in wedding vows) |
| KEEP | To earn one's ___, phrase meaning 'to work well enough to deserve what one is paid' (4) |
| ENVELOPE | Push the ____ , phrase meaning 'to try to achieve more than seems possible' (8) |
| HARDBALL | To play ____ , phrase meaning 'to adopt tough, no-nonsense tactics' (8) |
| PLUNGE | Take the ____, phrase meaning 'to resolve to do something irrevocable' (6) |
| BELFRY | To have bats in the ____, phrase meaning 'to be eccentric' (6) |
| SLEEVES | Roll up one's ____, phrase meaning 'to prepare to work' (7) |
| GOD | Under ___, phrase added to the Pledge of Allegiance in 1954 |
| PANIC | DON'T ___ (phrase on the cover of the novel Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) |
| WELFARE | Promote the general ___ (phrase in the Preamble to the Constitution) |
| CHOP | For the ___ , phrase meaning 'about to be dismissed' (4) |
| HAIR | Lose one's ____ , phrase meaning 'to grow angry' (4) |
| UPTAKE | Quick on the ____, phrase meaning 'able to understand things easily' (6) |
| ZONE | Friend ___ phrase used to describe an unreciprocated romantic interest that originated on Friends |
| DOWNER | Debbie ___ phrase used to describe a pessimistic person that originated from a sketch on Saturday Night Live |
| ASPOT | "You missed ___" (phrase to someone who's been cleaning) (2 wds.) |
| BEASTIE | 'Tim'rous ____,' phrase describing the titular creature in To A Mouse by Robert Burns (7) |
| ROOST | Rule the ____, phrase meaning 'to be in complete control' (5) |
| CUDGELS | Take up the ____, phrase meaning 'to join forcefully in support' (7) |
