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

1. Bully
2. Stubborn
3. Very loud
4. Calm amid chaos metaphor
5. Advantage
6. Pitiful
7. Attempt by some to turn back time
8. Natural inclination for something
9. Asterisk follower
10. Very strenuous
11. Brawl
12. Like a difficult, unpleasant task
13. Barely getting by financially
14. Be unfriendly toward someone
15. Ties and scarves
16. Obey the rules
17. Prayer metaphor
18. Tolerate
19. "Just kidding" type of comment
20. Hors d'oeuvres, often

Answers:

1. Browbeat
2. Headstrong
3. Ear-splitting
4. Eye of the storm
5. Leg up
6. Heartbreaking
7. Facelift
8. Have a nose for
9. Footnote
10. Backbreaking
11. Fistfight
12. Pulling teeth
13. Living hand to mouth
14. Give the cold shoulder
15. Neckwear
16. Toe the line
17. On your knees
18. Stomach
19. Tongue-in-cheek
20. Finger food 

Credit: NY Times Crossword
Alfio Micci 
PHYSICAL CULTURE