The answers to the clues below follow a pattern which describes the puzzle's theme - or unifier. Can you determine what it is?

1. Often surrounds a construction site
2. Site of first Winter Olympics in 1924
3. The Big Bopper liked it
4. Now for something entirely different
5. Excerpt from "The Nutcracker"
6. Cinderella's love - sort of
7. To bring out reds and blues, for example

Answers:

1. Chain-link fence
2. Chamonix, France
3. Chantilly lace
4. Change of pace
5. Chinese Dance
6. Charming Prince
7. Color enhance

What the answers have in common and the puzzle's theme - unifier:

OUTSIDE CHANCE

The letters C-H-A-N-C-E, in different, but always sequential order, surround - or are outside of - each answer.

Credit: LA Times Crossword
December 18, 2013
Jeffrey Wechsler
OUTSIDE CHANCE