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

1. Symbol of permanence
2. Upset the status quo
3. Radio City Music Hall performer
4. Retirement symbol
5. Like many marriages after a few years
6. Continental Divide locale
7. Child's simple toy
8. Ice cream flavor
9. Traditional Christian hymn
10. Metaphor for complexity
11. It rules the world
12. Facing two difficult choices


Answers:

1. Rock of Gibralter
2. Rock the boat
3. Rockette
4. Rocking chair
5. On the rocks
6. Rocky Mountains
7. Rocking horse
8. Rocky road
9. Rock of Ages
10. Rocket science
11.  The hand that rocks the cradle
12. Between a rock and a hard place