Crossword Clue:

the quality state or fact of inhering

AnswerCrossword Clue
SELFREFLECTIONActivity on Lent or Yom Kippur ... or a quality of every letter in the answer to each starred clue
WOWFACTORExtremely impressive quality, informally ... or, when read differently, what the four longest puzzle answers all have
LONGGovernor or Senator of the Pelican State.
TREESymbol on the state flag of Maine or South Carolina
INSULARAREAGuam or Puerto Rico, to the State Department