| SOLEMNLY | How presidents swear when taking the oath of office |
| OMERTA | Code of silence adopted by Homer taking the oath (6) |
| INRELIEF | How presidents at Mount Rushmore are carved (2,6) |
| ROBERTS | Administerer of the oath of office to Obama |
| TAFT | Only president to administer the oath of office to two other presidents |
| INAS | Swear ___ president (give the oath of office) |
| LYNDONJOHNSON | The first US President to take the oath of office in an airplane, he died less than a mile from his birthplace |
| INSTALLS | Gives the oath of office, e.g. |
| SWEARSIN | Administers the oath of office to: 2 wds. |
| OBAMA | US president who had to take the Oath of Office twice, Barack ... |
| SWEARIN | Give the oath of office |
| INSTATE | Administer the oath of office to |
| INSTATED | Administered the oath of office to |
| DAVID | Jacques, French painter of The Oath of the Horatii (5) |
| SIR | British statesman who refused to take the oath of supremacy to Henry VIII as head of the Church and was executed for high treason in 1535 (3,6,4) |
| MORE | British statesman who refused to take the oath of supremacy to Henry VIII as head of the Church and was executed for high treason in 1535 (3,6,4) |
| THOMAS | British statesman who refused to take the oath of supremacy to Henry VIII as head of the Church and was executed for high treason in 1535 (3,6,4) |
| NONJUROR | Any of a group of clergy in England and Scotland who declined to take the oath of allegiance to William and Mary in 1689 |
| FALL | Decline part of the oath of allegiance (4) |
| IDO | ___ solemnly swear ... (start of the US Presidential Oath of Office): 2 wds. |
