NY Times Crossword
May 7, 1994
Bryant White

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

1. Recipe ingredient, perhaps
2. Track meet event that takes 10 seconds - or less
3. Fictional detective
4. Men's wear shop
5. Instrument panels
6. One of eight
7. Haphazard
8. Nonsense
9. Mild oath

Answers:

1. Dash of salt
2. Hundred-yard dash
3. Dashiell Hammett
4. Haberdashery
5. Dashboards
6. Dasher
7. Slapdash
8. Balderdash 
9. Dash it all!