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

1. What money may sometimes do
2. Cut former ties or means of retreat
3. Cram
4. Relegate to a less urgent state
5. Voice of God on Mt. Sinai
6. Drive fast and recklessly
7. Ancient sacrifice
8. Gradually get more and more angry
9. Goal in exercising
10. Reach a point of total exhaustion or frustration

Answers:

1. Burn a hole in your pocket
2. Burn your bridges behind you
3. Burn the midnight oil
4. Put on the back burner
5. Burning bush
6. Burn rubber
7. Burnt offering
8. Do a slow burn
9. Burn calories
10. Burn out 

Credit: LA Times Crossword
Sylvia Bursztyn and Barry Tunick
KINDLED SPIRIT  (#1-4)