NY Times Crossword
February 14, 2013
Jules P. Markey

This puzzle has two parts. First, answer the clues below and then try to determine what the answers have in common. The answers to each clue is a compound word or two-word phrase. Wordplay is fair play.

1. Outdoor alternative to a crock pot
2. Type of radio chat during WWII
3. Simile for an alert mind, "Sharp as a ........
4. Campaign from town to town
5. Where a cast may be found
6. What the upwardly mobile might be waiting for

Answers to clues:

1. Dutch oven
2. Fireside
3. Steel trap
4. Barnstorm
5. Backstage
6. Elevator car

What the clue answers have in common:

HINT:
Each part of the answers can be followed by the same word.

Answer to what the clue answers have in common:

Each part of the clue answers can be followed by DOOR.