The answers to the clues below will have something in common. Can you determine what it is? After solving, try to  think of a clever title for this puzzle, and then compare it to the constructor's - which is shown below.

1. Train puller

2. "Wake up!" slangily

3. Meshy, as some fabric

4. Citrus source, for one

5. Neighborhood bar

6. Surfer's regret

7. "Watch your head!"

8. In chess, it precedes checkmate

9. Classic Western novel by Larry McMurty

10. The LC in TLC

Answers:

 

1. LOCOMOTIVE

2. LOOK ALIVE

3. LOOSE-WEAVE

4. LEMON GROVE

5. LOCAL DIVE

6. LOST WAVE

7. LOOK OUT ABOVE

8. LAST MOVE

9. LONESOME DOVE

10 LOVING CARE 

 

Every phrase is enclosed in some variation of the letters in LOVE

 

Credit:

Stanley Newman (#1-4)

LOVE IS ALL AROUND