The answers to the clues below have something in common - or rather don't have something in common. Can you determine what it is, and can you determine the three-word phrase that is the theme of this puzzle?

1. Common vacation time and compensation
2. Double in baseball
3. Avenue going east and west or north and south
4. Trikes' cousins
5. Critics' seats
6. Kind of truck
7. Bikini, for example
8. Congressional requirement for amendments

Answers:

1. Tweeks with pay
2. Tbase hit
3. Tway street
4. Twheelers
5. Ton the aisle
6. Tton
7. Tpiece suit
8. Tthirds vote

Theme: T for two

Credit: NY Times Crossword - Feb. 11, 1990
Arnold Moss
T FOR TWO