The answers to the following clues will have something in common:

1. Arrange things unfairly to your advantage
2. Give in
3. Kind of suitcase or word
4. 6 P.M. TV VIP
5. Cousin to stir craziness
6. Celebrated viloinist
7. Mississippi River sight, once
8. Move the last letter backward once in the alphabet, and it's incredible.
 

Answers:

1. Stack the DECK
2. BOW to pressure
3. PORTmanteaux
4. News ANCHOR
5. CABIN fever
6. Isaac STERN
7. KEELboat
8. HULL

Credit: LA Times Crossword
Sylvia Bursztyn and Barry Tunick
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