GETTING IT TOGETHER
Credit: LA Times Crossword
Sylvia Bursztyn and Barry Tunick (adapted)

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

1. Universal office item
2. Fertile US crop area
3. Picture
4. To force someone to listen to you
5. Middle name of a well-known game
6. Like some suits
7. Evolutionary intermediary
8. Like many kids after school hours
9. Tinkerbell napper
10. Formal, as a dinner

Answers:

1. PaperCLIP
2. CornBELT
3. SNAPshot
4. BUTTONhole
5. tic-TACK-toe
6. PINstriped
7. Missing LINK
8. LATCHkey
9. Captain HOOK
10. Black TIE