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

1. Where the college dorms are
2. Where the college students' apartments are
3. Beginning, as of an illness
4. Make up for
5. Puts on, as clothes
6. Takes off, as a hat
7. Spring or summer
8. Bids farewell, as at the airport

1. ON campus
2. OFF campus
3. ONset
4. OFFset
5. dONs
6. dOFFs
7. seasON
8. sees OFF

Credit: NY Times Crossword
April 30, 2006
Elizabeth C. Gorski
LIGHT THINKING
(USE THE ON/OFF SWITCH)