Puzzle 1

Told to leave a job

Person who takes care of insects that make honey

Tiny advances in progress

Battles

Wrestling

461 Ocean __ is a 1974 album by Eric Clapton

Brad Pitt film about illicit boxing group

Encroachment, interference

Serving as a temporary substitute

Manacles for securing a suspect

Left the throne

Fragrant mix of dried flowers, bark and seeds

Nonsensical speech; indecipherable words