Crossword Puzzle Squish, as potatoes

Clue: Squish, as potatoes

Of a vessel for ashes (URNAL with 5 letters)
Word before fry or potatoes (SMALL with 5 letters)
Asimov's genre, familiarly (SCIFI with 5 letters)
Asian sashes (OBIS with 4 letters)
Astronomer Edwin (HUBBLE with 6 letters)
Aspirations (e.g. AIMS with 4 letters)
Asserted one's innocence, perhaps (PLED with 4 letters)
To assist him in writing a neat book, the ruler used a __ (SHAHPENNER with 10 letters)
Most assuredly (e.g. INDEED with 6 letters)
Favor-asker's query (COULDYOU with 8 letters)