DOMESTICATED
Credit: LA Times Crossword
Sylvia Bursztyn and Barry Tunick  (#1-4)

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

1. What breadwiners do
2. No big deal
3. Certain racing birds
4. Wistful reflection on one's youth, perhaps
5. Alternative to public education
6. Longing for family
7. Formal study of the domestic arts
8. Having an unobstructed  path to a goal
9. Get closer and closer
10. Central location of a business
11. Like vegetables and certain terrorists
12. Four-bagger
13. Place where you spend a lot of time
14. Annual college alumni event
15. The final part of an undertaking

Answers:

1. Bring home the bacon
2. Nothing to write home about
3. Homing pigeons
4. You can't go home again
5. Home school
6. Homesick
7. Home economics
8. Home free
9. Home in on
10. Home office
11. Home-grown
12. Home run
13. Home away from home
14. Home-coming
15. Home stretch