Referring Clues

• Swear words
• Words to live by
• Scout recitation
• Vow
• Swear word
• Witness stand statement
• Sworn word
• Four-letter word
• Solemn promise
• Many an office has one
• Curse
• It may be minced
• Presidential administration
• Inauguration declaration
• It might be bleeped out
• "Holy smoke!," e.g.
• Swearing-in words
• Blast, for instance
• Colorful language
• Gadzooks, for one
• Swear words?
• 103-Down, mildly
• Words of commitment
• It's said with a raised hand
• "I do" or "Drat!"
• "@#$%!," e.g.
• See 68-Across
• Pledge
• It may be bleeped
• Subject for a censor
• It follows "Repeat after me"
• Courtroom affirmation
• Bleeper's target
• Inauguration Day recital
• Promising words
• ___ of office
• Something to bleep, maybe
• Dangerous thing to lie under
• Courtroom pledge
• Quadrennial White House administration
• Inauguration highlight
• It's sworn at a swearing-in
• Word of honor
• Four-letter word, aptly
• Gadzooks, e.g.
• Bleeped word
• Courtroom recitation
• It's taken in court
• Inauguration recital
• Solemn vow
• Solemn pronouncement
• Statement from the witness stand
• What an inductee takes
• It may be taken with a Bible
• Bit of profanity
• "My word!", e.g.
• Sworn statement
• Ritualistic declaration
• Bleeped blurt
• Boy Scout recitation
• One may be minced or taken at the bar
• Solemn affirmation
• Scout's recitation
• Solemn appeal
• "Egad!", for one
• Swearword
• Courtroom ritual
• Courtroom declaration
• "Egad!" is one
• Witness declaration
• "$#@!&", e.g.
• "@!#%$," e.g.
• Inauguration ritual
• Words from one on the stand
• Inauguration Day highlight
• Darn, for example
• Inauguration Day words
• Promise in court
• Expletive
• "I do," for one
• Juramentum
• Swearing-in ceremony highlight
• Zounds, e.g.
• Deuce, for instance
• Solemn declaration
• "@&#^$%!," e.g.
• Inauguration Day pronouncement
• Hand-on-the-Bible vow
• Inaugural event
• Censor's deletion
• Sworn testimony preceder
• Swearing in court
• It may be solemn
• Inauguration feature
• It precedes much testimony
• Administered item
• Solemn statement
• Court ritual
• Inauguration ceremony
• Swearing-in statement
• Court affirmation
• Court statement
• Hand-on-Bible ritual
• Witness' affirmation
• Swearing-in highlight
• Curse or vow
• One's Hippocratic
• This answer is a four-letter word
• What a senator must take
• Blue mouthful
• Promise from one on the stand
• "Drat!" is a mild one
• Sacred promise
• "Egad!" or "Drat!"
• Sworn statement from the witness stand
• The Hippocratic ___
• "I do," e.g.
• Salty retort
• Blue utterance
• Witness stand words
• It may be taken with a raised hand
• Electee's first act
• "Egad!" or "Drat!"
• Pledge of Allegiance, e.g.
• Office entry requirement, perhaps
• Hippocratic pronouncement
• Curse or vow, e.g.
• President's pledge
• Swearing-in pledge
• Invective
• Bit of colorful language
• Inauguration recitation
• The Hippocratic, for one
• Hippocratic ___
• Inauguration words
• Inaugural ritual
• Bit of irreverence
• Egad, e.g.
• Reason to swear
• "Ye gods!," for one
• Affirmation
• "$#@!&," e.g.
• Something sworn
• "I do," e.g.
• Stand words
• Swearing-in ritual
• Solemn avowal
• Inaugural feature
• Censor's Target
• "Drat!" is a mild one
• One shouldn't lie under it
• Office promise
• Inauguration Day promise
• Bleeped-out word
• Colorful words
• Colorful words
• Secret pledge in each of the four longest Across answers
• Swearing-in
• Courtroom ritual
• Promise
• Witness stand recitation
• Bit of irreverence
• "I do solemnly swear ... ," e.g.
• Hippocratic, e.g.
• Solemn word
• Inauguration Day event
• Solemn pledge
• Testimony preceder
• Bit of blasphemy
• 'I do,' e.g.
• "Gadzooks," e.g.
• Court recitation
• Boy Scouts take it
• Hand-on-the-Bible utterance
• Sacred vow
• Office pledge
• Four-letter guarantee
• Swearing-in speech
• Judicial administration?
• It may be bleeped out
• Thing taken at an inauguration
• Swearing-in utterance
• Something taken by a scout
• Inaugural recitation
• Under ___
• 36-Across in four of this puzzle's answers
• Inaugural pledge
• Witness-stand statement
• Good Scouts keep it
• Presidential pledge
• It can be a curse
• Inauguration Day pledge
• Mild curse
• Part of a swearing-in ceremony
• Something taken on the stand
• Trial promise
• Some people are under it
• "Holy jumping catfish!," e.g.
• Witness-stand pledge
• Censor's concern
• Swearing-in recitation
• Officeholder's promise
• Sworn promise
• Legally binding pledge
• "I do solemnly swear ...," e.g.
• One is often taken on a 48-Across
• Darn, e.g.
• Censor's target, at times
• Pledge before taking the stand
• Hand-raising activity
• Assurance
• It's taken by Nicholson in "A Few Good Men"
• Boy Scouts take one
• Attestation
• Curse word
• Rats, e.g.
• Witness stand pledge
• "I swear" may start it
• Expression of loyalty
• Naturalization requirement
• Profanity
• Police graduation ritual
• See 66-Across
• Cuss word
• Trial pledge
• Cussword
• What a new president takes
• Words from the witness stand
• Hand-raising ritual
• What a scout recites
• Promise "kept" by 17-, 31-, 39- and 55-Across
• Formal guarantee
• Article II, Section 1 subject
• It might be bleeped
• "I do" preceder
• Witness' promise
• Promise before testimony
• Declaration
• Pledge or promise
• The President takes it before taking office
• Boys Scouts take it
• New presidents take it at the swearing in
• Court procedure
• A new president takes one
• It's taken with a hand in the air
• It'll be taken in January 2009
• Inaugural reading
• It's taken with an upraised hand
• Boys Scouts take one
• A new president swears it
• "Right hand on holy book" situation
• Hippocratic thing
• Inauguration Day recitation
• What a Boy Scout takes
• Boy Scout's promise
• Inauguration Day swearing-in
• Kiss song: "The ___"
• Promising Kiss song off "The Elder," with "The"?
• Manowar "The ___"
• Kiss song that makes a pledge (with "The")?
• "The Elder" single "The ___"
• Some loathsome characters that incoming president has to take
• Reluctant to lose student showing promise
• Promise to pass the hat round first
• A hot concoction to swear by?
• It's taken to be a round form of hat
• Strong language in set-to at home
• The curse of the 10 15
• Courtroom promise
• Swearing-in recital
• Curse that's old hat, possibly
• A promise is sometimes made on it
• Solemn words
• Presidential promise
• Testimony prelude
• Words sworn by
• It may be administered with a bible
• The President took it
• Trial declaration
• Something solemn
• President's promise
• Speech replaced with a grawlix in the funny papers
• Under ___ (sworn to tell the truth)
• Statement of allegiance
• Curse unwilling student for dropping off
• Bond given part in "Othello", a thankless task
• Not initially unwilling to curse
• A vow taken in the boathouse
• Promise of love at hotel
• A hot temper, dammit!
• Imprecation
• Promise a hot shower
• Vow, sworn word
• Goatherd keeps promise
• Vow to hate, without going to extremes
• Coat hook left by chef and taken by 5?
• Swear word used during set-to at home
• Curse love at end of speech
• Language of goatherds?
• Reluctant to jettison origin of profanity
• Goatherd's comment on unpleasant surprise?
• Something a Boy Scout takes
• Four-letter word, perhaps
• Something a Girl Scout takes
• Curse love, a source of troubled hearts
• Something for a president to take
• ___ of office (Inauguration Day vow)
• Initiation ritual
• "Raise your right hand" type of promise
• Some loathsome swearword
• Swear by it, really
• Court pledge
• Citizenship promise
• It's taken very seriously
• Trial recitation
• Bit of swearing
• What a president takes
• Solemn utterance
• Courtroom swearing-in
• Part of a swearing in
• Legal affirmation
• Induction requirement, often
• Swearing or swearing-in words
• "@#$%!," in comics
• It may be taken in court and in boathouse
• Citizenship recitation
• Witnesses are under it
• Formal promise
• Hand-on-the-Bible promise
• Bit of salty language
• Inauguration pledge
• Witness's pledge
• Hippocratic, for one
• Swearing-in affirmation
• Statement often starting "I ..."
• Something to swear
• "&$#!," for one
• Words at a swearing-in ceremony
• Witness stand vow
• Witness' pledge
• Swear word, or swearing-in words
• It's sworn
• One may be taken before a term
• Swearing-in ceremony
• One may get bleeped out
• Swear words?
• Four-letter word for a four-letter word
• Witness' prelude
• Court witness' pledge
• Boys Scouts' serious statement
• Something minced, utterly!
• One might speak under it
• Swearing-in custom
• Solemn sentence
• "I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure," e.g.
• It's a crime to lie under it
• "Crikey!" is a mild one
• Hammer-strikes-thumb reaction
• Scout's promise
• Boy Scout statement
• A hot concoction to swear by?
• Sworn words
• You might speak under this
• Serious promise
• Legal profession?
• Scouts take one
• See 70-Across
• Something recited in a swearing-in ceremony
• Scouts take it
• Sworn vow
• K) Boy Scout's promise
• Tennis Court ___: French Revolution event
• Boy Scouts recite one
• "Fiddlesticks!" is a mild one
• One is sworn
• Solemn recitation
• It's taken to take office
• Courtroom profession?
• A scout takes one
• "I solemnly swear ...," for one
• Boy Scout's declaration
• Pledge in court
• Something you can be under when in court