NY Times Crossword
July 6, 2016
David Woolf

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

1. Futile
2. Types
3. Saharan
4. Rearmost
5. Icy coating
6. NATO, for one
7. May honorees
8. Ocean predator
9. Bomber pilot's worry
10. This, that, and the other - abbrev.

Answers:

1. VAIN
2. ILKS
3. ARID
4. HIND
5. RIME
6. PACT
7. MOMS
8. ORCA
9. FLAK
10. MISC

What the answers have in common:

Each four-letter answer is made up of two US state postal code abbreviations.