SAYING THE ALPHABET
Credit: NY Times Crossword
Charles M. Deber

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

1. Drones
2. Facilitate
3. Rib or torment
4. Prompts
5. Bluebirds
6. Manipulate
7. In debt to
8. Sagacious
9. Podded plants
10. Red and Dead

Answers:

1. BBBBB
2. EEEEE
3. TTTTT
4. QQQQQ
5. JJJJJ
6. UUUUU
7. OOOOO
8. YYYYY
9. PPPPP
10. CCCCC

(Bees, Ease, Tease, Cues, Jays, Use, Owes, Wise, Peas, Seas)