| SELFCONTROL | The ability to exercise restraint over one's feelings, emotions or reactions (4-7) |
| INTROSPECT | mull over one's feelings |
| STIMULATES | Stirs the feelings, emotions of (10) |
| EMOTE | Express feelings / emotions |
| PLAYON | Work upon (feelings, emotions, etc) |
| LETOFFSTEAM | Release pent-up emotions, or what the starred answers can do |
| SUBSIDEINTO | To be taken over by an emotion or indication of it, such as laughter |
| COLDBLOODED | A person who is without emotion or pity (4-8) |
| ATTRACT | Draw by appealing to the emotions or senses, or by exciting admiration; allure; invite. (7) |
| CONTROL | Exercise restraint or direction over; dominate; command. (7) |
| ROUSE | Word whose etymological journey arose or started with a falcon's feather shake but moved to a broader term encompassing awakening or stirring up emotions; or, a bugle's wake-up call (5) |
| LYRIC | Type of poetry that expresses the poet's emotions or feelings (5) |
| CONSORTIA | Actions or reactions to a lot of businesses getting together (9) |
| DEMAGOGUE | Political agitator who appeals with oratory to people's emotions or prejudices (9) |
| TAKES | Captures in chess; attempts at recording scenes in film; or, reactions indicating successful vaccinations (5) |
| REPRESS | Exercise restraint about newspapers (7) |
| STEAM | Exercise restraint about a certain kind of power (5) |
| INSIDEOUT | Pixar film about emotions, or an alternate title for this puzzle |
| ACCESS | A way or means of entry; a fit of illness or emotion; or, permission to log in/on to a computer network (6) |
| RESONANCE | From the Latin meaning "echo", sympathetic vibration in music or physics; plangency or sonority; or, by extension, something that evokes emotion or strikes a chord (9) |
