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

1. Feverish

2. Short book

3. City leader

4. Romeo's love

5. Group of eight

6. Soak in a sauce

7. Teenage girl in a pageant 

8. Pre-divorce condition, perhaps

9. Improve something by adding to it 

10. Two-faced god in Roman mythology

11. Man's ties to his mother, metaphorically

12. "When in the course of human events ..." document 

Answers:

 

1. Febrile

2. Novella

3. Mayor

4. Juliet

5. Octet

6. Marinate

7. Junior Miss

8. Separated

9. Augment

10. Janus

11. Apron strings

12. Declaration of Independence 

 

What the answers have in common:

 

Each answer begins with an abbreviated form of a calendar month.

 

Credit:

Josiah Breward

ABBREVIATED CALENDAR