OLD STANDARDS
Credit: LA Times Crossword
Sylvia Bursztyn and Barry Tunick  (#1-6, 21&22)

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

1. Genuine
2. The good in what's bad
3. Eloquent
4. Malingerer
5. Million-selling album
6. Military award for gallantry under fire
7. Goal of Jason and the Argonauts
8. San Francisco draw
9. It propelled California into statehood
10. Olympic achievements
11. Theoretical period of contented living
12. Opium and heroin nexus
13. Popular dog
14. Plant and color
15. What Moses found on his return from Mt. Sinai
16. Source of quick, easy profits
17. Period of great cultural progress, as in ancient Greece
18. "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."
19. Financial incentive for early retirement
20. 25th and 50th wedding years
21. Favored architectural shape of the ancient Greeks
22. The "May" in a May-December marriage, perhaps
23. Solution to a complex problem that is clear, simple, and wrong.

Answers:

1. Good as gold
2. Silver lining
3. Silver-tongued
4. Goldbricker
5. Gold record
6. Silver Star
7. Golden Fleece
8. Golden Gate Bridge
9. Gold Rush
10. Gold and silver medals
11. Golden years
12. Golden Triangle
13. Golden Retriever
14. Goldenrod
15. Golden Calf
16. Gold mine
17. Golden Age
18. Golden Rule
19. Golden handshake
20. Silver and golden anniversaries 
21. Golden rectangle
22. Golddigger
23. Silver bullet