LA Times Crossword
January 7, 2016
Bruce Haight

The answers to the clues below will have something in common, as revealed by the last clue.

1. Figure out, metaphorically - with "Get"
2. Frighten off
3. Pinocchio's film cry of self-discovery
4. Japan and Korea, geographically
5. Ride crosstown together in New York, perhaps
6. Shared group space

Answers:

1. Get a read on
2. Scare away
3. "I'm a real boy!"
4. Far East
5. Share a cab
6. COMMON AREA

Clues #1-5 each conceal the word AREA:

1. get A REAd on
2. scARE Away
3. im A REAl boy
4. fAR EAst
5. shARE A cab