Historical clue formulations

• Vow — 2026-06-21
• Words with one's right hand raised — 2026-01-20
• Something you can be under when in court — 2025-10-08
• Swearing-in words — 2025-07-07
• Swearword — 2025-06-11
• "I solemnly swear …," for one — 2025-02-09
• Inauguration Day promise — 2024-12-02
• Sworn statement — 2024-09-11
• Courtroom profession? — 2024-07-03
• It's taken to take office — 2024-06-13
• "Fiddlesticks!" is a mild one — 2024-05-14
• It's a four-letter word, aptly — 2024-03-31
• Initiation ritual — 2023-05-12
• See 70-Across — 2023-01-11
• Swear word — 2022-11-13
• Legal profession? — 2022-08-21
• Pledge — 2022-06-12
• You might speak under this — 2022-05-22
• Swearing-in pledge — 2022-05-16
• "%&$@," in comics — 2022-02-15
• Sworn words — 2021-11-10
• It's a crime to lie under it — 2021-06-28
• "I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure," e.g. — 2021-05-30
• One might speak under it — 2021-03-07
• "Solemn" words — 2020-11-11
• "I do solemnly swear ...," e.g. — 2020-11-10
• Solemn affirmation — 2020-09-22
• Curse — 2020-09-13
• "I do solemnly swear ...," e.g. — 2020-06-15
• Four-letter word for a four-letter word — 2020-05-24
• Swear words — 2020-02-13
• Words at a swearing-in ceremony — 2019-12-16
• "I do solemnly swear ...," e.g. — 2019-07-15
• Statement often starting "I ..." — 2019-06-30
• Solemn vow — 2019-04-30
• Bit of salty language — 2019-04-24
• Curse word — 2019-03-10
• Inauguration recitation — 2019-02-27
• Vow — 2018-09-02
• Curse — 2018-07-25
• ___ of office — 2018-01-16
• Hippocratic ___ — 2017-12-25
• It might be bleeped — 2017-05-31
• Formal guarantee — 2017-04-15
• Promise — 2017-03-28
• Inauguration recitation — 2017-02-06
• Words from the witness stand — 2017-01-25
• Naturalization requirement — 2016-04-14
• Vow — 2016-01-18
• Swearing-in statement — 2015-09-07