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

1. Common Halloween social event
2. Mormon ________ Choir
3. Group of sharks eating - perhaps
4. Polite name for a pool hall
5. Diplomat's skills

Answers:

1. Costume party
2. Tabernacle
3. Feeding frenzy
4. Billiards parlor
5. Finesse and tact

What the answers have in common:

Hidden in the first word of each answer is a word describing some kind of charge:

1. COSTume
2. TABernacle
3. FEEding
4. BILLiards
5. FINEsse

Credit:
Robert Dillman
HIDDEN CHARGES