FWIW most of my comments below are based on the premise that your range is too narrow.
This is an interesting situation because on the one hand you don't want to give free cards to any draws but on the other hand it's such a rich board you could be very bad shape. Desptite the scary nature of the board I'd be inclined to make a CB here on the flop. I will look to my opp reaction as information as to how to proceed. I am very open to the possibility that I might need to fold this hand.
I think the hand that most likely calls here is a pair and OESD -- middle strength/likelihood hand. I put weaker Ax hands as an additional group we beat. Then of course we are behind, straights, sets and two pair type hands. If he has a small pocket pair we not going to make any more money on this hand by checking, but we could lose more if he hits a set. We have a similar situation with hands like T9s.
If we get called on the flop I think we need to check the turn unless our hand improves. Where improving means an K or a J but not an A. We need to practice pot control on this hand no need to go broke here.
Finally I noticed you didn't have any suited Ace hands in your opps range, can you comment on that ?
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