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Red yam is cooked - delicious! (6)

Read about my being adorable (6)

Idealistic Democrat concerned with American law (6)

D/RE/A/MY; Law and my both interjections expressing surprise

Hazy Ms. West rejected staying off the drink (6)

MAE, reversed, in DRY

@Buddy; I've never come across "law" in that sense - and I've watched plenty of American stuff! Is it quite unusual?

On the slim chance that anyone couldn't parse 6 it's D REAM Y

Chambers defines it as:
Expressing asseveration (obsolete)
Expressing surprise (dialect)

I do not know what asseveration is.

The OED has citations for that usage that run from 1598 to 2007. It's defined there as:

Expressing surprise, emphasis, dismay, etc.; (in early use) expressing emphatic confirmation of a statement. Sometimes with I, me, you, etc. (cf. la you at la int. a).

@Buddy; thx

Vague article replaced by paper at midday (6)

REAM instead of A in D(A)Y