NICHOLAS NAMES
Credit: LA Times Crossword
Sylvia Bursztyn and Barry Tunick

If the formal way to resist change is to STAND PATRICK, what about ................

1. Formal migratory songbird
2. Formal American marmot
3. Formal Oriental carriage
4. Formal free-for-all
5. Formal for poorly and cheaply constructed
6. Formal for grasshopper cousin
7. Formal for Native American drum
8. Formal nanny's mate
9. Formal spotted pattern on cloth

Answers:

1. Robertolink
2. Woodcharles
3. Richardshaw
4. Donaldbrook
5. Jerome-built
6. Katherinedid
7. Thomas-Thomas
8. William goat 
9. Polka Dorothy