Crossword Puzzle Hangs onto

Clue: Hangs onto

Hangs out, perhaps (DRIES with 5 letters)
It hangs around a joint (ANKLET with 6 letters)
Ontologist's concern (EXISTENCE with 9 letters)
One who hangs around (LOITERER with 8 letters)
Hangs out one's shingle (OPENS with 5 letters)
Kid's book character whose portrait hangs in the Plaza Hotel (ELOISE with 6 letters)
"Thereby hangs ---" (ATALE with 5 letters)
Hangs five (SURFS with 5 letters)
It hangs around trees (TINSEL with 6 letters)
Fiddler hangs there (ROOF with 4 letters)