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

1. Eccentric one

2. Not easily angered or upset

3. One who doesn't fit in with the rest

4. To succeed unexpectedly

5. He's a sure bet at the track (maybe)

6. What some luckless folks never seem to get

7. Dealing fairly with both sides of a dispute

8. This, that, and the other

9. Take revenge

10. Private fraternal order

11. A bet you're as likely to win as to lose

12. "ZOUNDS!"

Answers:

1. Oddball

2. Even tempered

3. Odd man out

4. Beat the odds

5. Odds-on-favorite

6. An even break

7. Evenhanded

8. Odds and ends

9. Get even

10. Oddfellows

11. Even money

12. Odds Bodkins!