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

1. Talk to an answering machine
2. Divide the earnings equally
3. Lose a few pounds
4. Captains last command
5. High school senior annual event
6. Avoid a debt, for example
7. No longer support a particular effort
8. Post bond
9. Metaphor for a deliberate, radical change in life

Answers:

1. Leave a message
2. Split the profits
3. Take off weight
4. Abandon ship
5. Ditch Day
6. Skip out
7. Desert a cause
8. Bail out
9. Run off with the circus

Credit:
LA Times Crossword
November 30, 2009
Pancho Harrison (#1-3)
GOING DOWN THE ROAD