NY Times Crossword
December 6, 2010
Richard Chisholm (#1-6)

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

1. Good order
2. Wool gatherer
3. Bootblack's service
4. Pull a bed prank on
5. Annie Oakley, for one
6. Combat stress syndrome
7. Rapid dismissal - curt treatment
8. (Phonetically) Interior design featuring a distressed look
9. (Phonetically) 1963 hit song by Jimmy Gilmer and the Fireballs

Answers:

1. Shipshape
2. Sheep shearer
3. Shoeshine
4. Short sheet
5. Sharpshooter 
6. Shell shock
7. Short shrift
8. Shabby chic
9. Sugar Shack