Crossword Puzzle Very best ones

Clue: Very best ones

Bestir oneself (e.g. ACT with 3 letters)
Stuff oneself (e.g. OVEREAT with 7 letters)
Humbled oneself, perhaps (ATECROW with 7 letters)
Not exactly exert oneself (LOLL with 4 letters)
Make oneself comfortable (SETTLEIN with 8 letters)
___ oneself (share private thoughts) (UNBOSOM with 7 letters)
Annual MTV bestowal, for short (VMA with 3 letters)
Bests, intellectually (OUTSMARTS with 9 letters)
1995 bestseller in which #23 is "Don't Date a Married Man" (THERULES with 8 letters)
Gird (oneself) (BRACE with 5 letters)