NY Times Crossword
January 30, 1995
Ernie Furtado

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

1. Among the final candidates for a job or position
2. Rapid, unsympathetic dismissal - curt treatment
3. Summer camp prank
4. It's often lost in later years
5. One who's about to move on - as from a job
6. Snap at - treat rudely
7. Not seeing the forest for the trees
8. Fail to meet certain requirements
9. Be dealt with unfairly - be cheated
10. Temporary - not lasting very long

Answers:

1. On the short list
2. Given short shrift
3. Short sheet a bed
4. Short-term memory 
5. Short-timer
6. Be short with
7. Shortsighted
8. Come up or fall short
9. Get shortchanged
10. Short-lived