SNL Weekend Update with Colin Jost and Michael Che, Puzzle 1

Small difficulties?

Noncommitting RSVP

Decorated plant this time of year

Paraphrasing a tweet I recently saw: "If someone gives me warmed up chocolate milk and tells me it's ___, Imma burn they house down"

From Veep: "Even labor and delivery with her was a nightmare." "Oh, yes? Why is that? You have a very ___ vagina?" "Well, tight. In the States we say tight."

Donkey Kong, for example

Jost: "President Elect Joe Biden has emphasized his commitment to vaccine distribution by promising 100 million shots in 100 days, which is also his ___."

Tin container

Vaccinate, slangily

Animal that can rotate its head 270 degrees (I mean I can too, but only once)

Closest

Lincoln, of 5-dollar-bill fame

Put a stop to

It comes after survival, or before Kat

John or Amy or John Quincy (in that order of greatness)

Jost: "Don't worry, Trump isn't throwing in the towel, because he's been a fighter his whole life. At least that's what it looks like on his ___."

Hack, say

"That being said..." in a text

Shock

Possible pronoun

Suffix meaning "resembling"

"___ soon!"

More polite, "My turn!"

Matchbox Twenty single that precedes the line, "maybe it's time to come home"

Che: "The Texas lawsuit asked the Supreme Court to invalidate election results in four other states, which is a plan so crazy, only Texas could have ___."

Ice sheets that don't rhyme with 36-Down

___ party, nerd gathering

Language in which the word for Ireland uses the word for potato

"The drain is NOT clogged, you ___!!!"

In math, the abstract concept generalizing the idea of an unclosed interval in the real line, -or- Dissects an alien, say

Concealed

"There should be ___!"

Put the pedal to the metal, but only briefly

Jost: "This week the Supreme Court dismissed two different Trump lawsuits to overturn the election results. They were the first rulings by the Supreme Court that were just the ___."

Plural is

Swashbuckling Flynn and others

Georgia, the ___ State (also, the Decider of the Senate Majority State)

Laughter indicated by thumbs

Lipton and Fuze competitor

Can eat right up

Chemicals banned by US law

Questlove or Black Thought, for example

8 prefix

Who likely left urine stains in the White House

___ on the Beach, Bleeding Gums Murphy album

"___ Pronounce you Chuck and Larry", an Adam Sandler film that made almost $200 million for some reason

Rough handlers

New York City subway operator

Produce something dull in a laborious way -or- How to relieve sexual tension on the dance floor

Sharpen

Gets juuust right

A teardrop under the eye, often

Hipster brews

Housing cost

Wade defeater, for now

Puerto ___

Undergraduate degrees in STEM, for example

American rapper born Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones

Best performance

Clean out your ears, say

Where to hang pictures, it's said

Ceremonial guardians of the Tower of London, thought to be nicknamed after the rations they were provided in the 17th century

Gritty genre

Not a soul

Wear that doesn't rhyme with 53-Across

Start to chat?

Go against

Statement of ability

They can be rushing and passing, abbr.

Lubrication injection site

Shined bright (like a diamond, why not)

Not noticed

The "bad" cholesterol (because you want a "low" amount of it, there's a mnemonic device for you)

Like some arguments and sex

But in Spain

Literary heroine Jane

Casablanca role

Insano in the membrano

Not quite shut

It's fine, while liquor is notably quicker

Deteriorate

Organization concerned with clean air (are they though? at least at the moment?)