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

1. Product protection in the system phrase
2. Johnny Carson and Jay Leno, once
3. Impose the longest prison term
4. Poet laureate under Queen Victoria
5. Satisfied
6. Possible blackjack combo
7. 9:50
8. They pave a certain road

Answers:

1. Patent pending 
2. Late night hosts
3. Sentence to life
4. Alfred Lord Tennyson
5. Content
6. Ten - Ace
7. Ten to ten
8. Good intentions

Each answer phrase has or conceals the word TEN.

Credit:
Fran and Lou Sabin
THE PERFECT PUZZLE