The answers to the clues below will have something in common.

1. Speak frankly
2. Beat a hasty retreat
3. Architect of St. Paul's Cathedral
4. Get lost!
5. Fear response
6. New Zealanders, informally
7. One in pear tree
8. Tenerife and Las Palmas
9. Converse casually
10. Shrink with fear
11. Like a candle in the wind
12. Friend of Winnie the Pooh
13. Mope and complain
14. "Nevermore" speaker

Answers:

1. Talk turkey
2. Chicken out
3. Christopher Wren
4. Go fly a kite!
5. Goosebumps
6. Kiwis
7. Partridge
8. Canary Islands
9. Chat
10. Quail 
11. Flicker
12. Christopher Robin
13. Grouse 
14. Raven 

Credit: Chicago Tribune Crossword
Susan Delgado
ONE FOR THE BIRDS (#1-8) 

Credit: Chicago Tribune Crossword
Ed Voile
VERBS OF A FEATHER (#9-11)