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Credit: Washington Post Crossword
Robert Lieblich

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

1. Tea party attendee
2. Mendelssohn favorite
3. Basketball competition
4. Jo, Amy, and Beth
5. St. Patrick
6. John Philip Sousa
7. Fund raising charity
8. Bad day for Julius Caesar

Answers:

1. March hare
2. Wedding March
3. March madness
4. The March sisters in Little Women 
5. March honoree
6. The march king
7. March of Dimes
8. Ides of March