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

1. Quarrel
2. Subsistence living
3. Elegant stone  interiors
4. US Southeast Asia policy once
5. Orson Wells' Sci-Fi classic
6. San Francisco fixture
7. Pricey jewelry offering
8. Anti-trust law target
9. Firemen use them
10. Search, as for a compliment
11. Found at a crime scene

Answers:

1. Cross words
2. Hardscrabble life
3. Marble halls
4. Domino Theory
5. War of the Worlds
6. Golden Gate Bridge
7. Diamond solitaire
8. Monopoly
9. Chutes and Ladders
10. Fish
11. Clue

Credit: LA Times Crossword
Sylvia Bursztyn and Barry Tunick
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