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

1. Common childhood disease
2. Erwin Rommel
3. "Achilles and the Tortoise," for one
4. Massachusetts nine
5. Dominant religion of Greece
6. Manhattan breakfast order, perhaps
7. Near impossible goal
8. Mythological source of hope

Answers:

1. Chicken pox
2. Desert Fox
3. Zeno's Paradox
4. Boston Red Sox
5. Eastern Orthodox
6. Bagel and lox
7. Robbing Fort Knox
8. Pandora's Box

Credit:
Sam Bellotto Jr. (#4-7)