TOOL TIME
Credit: LA Times Crossword
Sylvia Bursztyn and Barry Tunick

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

1. Fair and square
2. Be selective
3. Precision paraders
4. Exert pressure
5. Disrupt plans
6. SST or 747
7. Cliched expression
8. "Have patience."

Answers:

1. On the level
2. Pick and choose
3. Drill teams
4. Bring down the hammer
5. Throw a wrench into the works
6. Jet plane
7. Old saw
8. Awl in good time